On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Michael Hampicke <gentoo-u...@hadt.biz> >>> wrote: >>>>>> Video-codecs? I haven't seen a video in years that was not playable by >>>>>> 64bit >>>>>> ffmpeg based players but worked with 32bit. >>>>> <SNIP> >>>>> >>>>> Lots of wmv files won't play in 64-bit. That's the only one I have >>>>> trouble with. They play fine in 32-bit Gentoo. >>>>> >>>> Mark, was thinking of you and your videos that don't play on 64bit when >>>> I read Volkers statement :) >>>> ffmpeg know lots of shit, but not all if it. >>>> >>> >>> Yeah, that's the truth. I suspect this specific case just lacks a >>> smart developer who wants to figure it all out and do the work to make >>> an Open Source codec that plays the file type, but maybe there's >>> patents and other junk that gets in the way. >> >> It's possible they just don't have a sample to work with. If you can >> send it to them, they can at least add it to their samples archives. >> >> >>> >>> And really, as I use a lot of VM's all day long, it doesn't seem >>> overly important any more. It's trivial to just run a Windows VM to >>> play wmv files whereas finding someone in the Linux world who actually >>> cares about supporting and promoting the wmv format seems like a waste >>> of my time and theirs. They can work on better things. >> >> There are containers and codecs. Most containers are supported, >> leaving the codecs. >> >> Can you post the output of 'mplayer -identify $filename' on that file?
> > Point me toward a samples archive and I'll post a file. There may be no need. Not sure. http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/750 That said, you might get in touch with mike (at) multimedia.cx, as he's had a long history of involvement. Offer the sample, mention it's a codec you need to view frequently. Perhaps ask who you might poke who'd have an interest in it. I'd probably include the above link. > > The file plays audio in mplayer. There is no video which is consistent > with what I see here. Granted, this is 64-bit and I don't have > win32codecs installed which is what plays it on the 32-bit VM. [snip] Yeah, it's MSS2. And it sounds like upstream is aware of it. -- :wq
