On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: > On 05/01/2012 11:52 AM, Mark Knecht 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? >> > > Can you play the WMV? > > The "wmv" extension usually indicates an ASF container, and the ASF > container can have DRM. I see them every once in a while, and > ffmpeg/mplayer have no idea what to do with them. >
I Cannot play the files on my Gentoo box using Linux. No player that I've tried so far - xine, mplayer, dragon player in KDE - none of them play these files. However I can play the files within a Win7 VM on this machine which is what I've been doing this morning so far. I sort of doubt the DRM restriction on this stuff. The web site asks subscribers not to farward these to their friends, etc., and says subscribers are on the honor system. They appears to be simple recordings of of his screen and audio coming from an inexpensive mic. Nothing more. I just got access to these files today so until this morning I didn't even know what format they'd be in.
