Hi all, I'm sure everyone during his experience with Linux on a PPC had to deal with the problem of proprietary video formats. At first I tried all the possible hacks I found googling, like the experimental use of ffmpeg on wmv3
http://multimedia.cx/eggs/?p=129 http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/download.php and other projects, but none of them seemed to work. I always wondered why could we use the OS X libraries, but I guess there's a problem of compatibility that I do not understand. After the breaking news that Apple was switching to x86 I felt like I had to accept the fact that I could never watch a wmv, asf, rm, flash, on my notebook under Linux. Don't get me wrong, I HATE these formats, they are lossy, they're closed source and most of the footage you find is low level quality. But there is tons of interesting stuff that for some stupid reason (somebody said Windows?) is reachable only with these formats, so you loose a lot of info, unless of course you: 1. Reboot, this doesn't sound like a decent solution to me 2. Run the Mac On Linux, a bit better, but I've got some problems with the audio, though 3. Use a x86 machine that is handy at the time. Hey, if I wanted an x86 I could have just bought an IBM notebook... Then something happened. You all know about the XboX 360, right? The console hardware is based on a custom IBM PowerPC-based "Xenon" central processing unit (CPU), and it has functions of a "media center" (we all know that's not true, but let it be. Vorbis, uh?). So, if they made the 360 working (not too well http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/23/138200&tid=128&tid=211&tid=10), they also made proprietary codecs and DLL for PPC right? If this project grow as it predecessor: http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/Main_Page shouldn't we then be able to play the damn videos? Just wondering...... -- Federico Pistono Department of Computer Science - Verona, Italy My website ::::::::::::::::: http://www.federicopistono.org My personal website :::: http://pain.altervista.org Ex-College Website ::::: http://pain.altervista.org/flatnukeuwcad/ Linux Registered User :: #340392 "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me."
