On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking around on the web for ways to convert wmv files to mp4. So
> far the most common solution seems to be ffmpeg but when I try that it
> doesn't seem to understand the video files. The most common type of
> comment people give is that this should be straight forward if 32-bit
> codecs are installed. I'm running 64-bit and don't see what flags I
> might need to set to get that?
>
> There is a library (libwmf) which advertises the ability to do this
> but I don't seem to be using it in any application right now:
>
> * media-libs/libwmf
> Available versions: 0.2.8.4-r4 {{X debug doc expat xml}}
> Homepage: http://wvware.sourceforge.net/
> Description: library for converting WMF files
>
> mark@c2stable ~/WMV-Test $ equery depends libwfm
> * These packages depend on libwfm:
> mark@c2stable ~/WMV-Test $
>
>
> Anyone doing this successfully today or what to suggest how to do this?
What you need is likely a combination of 'w32codecs' (which I expect
is an ebuild somewhere) and multilib.
Unfortunately, I don't have a Gentoo box I can ssh into any more, at
least until inara and/or kaylee are fixed. But I did have this kind of
thing working on them previously.
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:wq
