On Saturday, May 6 2006 3:27, kashani wrote: > Farhan Ahmed wrote: > > For converting from .wmv to other formats I recommend mencoder (it comes > > with MPlayer).. Make sure you compile MPlayer with win32codecs USE > > flag.. Here's an example to convert movie.wmv to movie.avi (DivX) : > > > > mencoder movie.wmv -o movie.avi -ovc lavc -oac lavc > > It's important to note that the above only works for wmv8 and older > files not the newer wmv9 codec that many sites/tools are starting to > use. I don't believe there is any free decoder of wmv9 files on Linux at > the moment. > > kashani
A native wmv9 (vc-1) decoder in ffmpeg is actually an upcoming google summer of code project :) So if there is any success there we should start seeing support for it all over the place. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
