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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 27 September 2006 21:55, Peter Davoust <worldgnat@×××××.com> |
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> TOP-POSTED about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] How To Play WMV?': |
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>> On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 19:29 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: |
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>>> On Wednesday 27 September 2006 06:25, "Christoph Mende" |
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>>> <ch.mende@××××××××××.com> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] How To Play |
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>>> WMV?': |
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>>>> Latest stable version of ffmpeg is supposed to support wmv. |
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>>> Yeah, I don't have any -bin packages installed on ~amd64 and I can |
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>>> play some WMVs. |
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>> There are different versions of wmv. Last time I checked (on Ubuntu |
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>> atleast), the 64 bit of the w32codecs didn't work for WMV 9. The 32 bit |
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>> one seems to work perfectly though. You also have to have 32-bit |
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>> mplayer. |
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> Please don't top-post. |
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> Yeah, it really doesn't matter to me when proprietary formats aren't |
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> available. When I moved to amd64, I happily shed both flash and WMVs. |
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> (At the time I don't believe either firefox-bin or mplayer-bin was |
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> available.) I figure if it's not important enough for the |
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> producer/distributor to use accessible formats (Speex, Vorbis, FLAC, |
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> Theora, etc.) it's not important enough for me to spend time watching. |
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> *Insert Duncan's .sig here* |
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Well, I'm sorry but I disagree. Let's not go fanatic about any ideas. |
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Free software and open source are the greatest thing in the IT world (my |
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personal opinion), but should I not use NVidia's drivers only because |
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they are not GPLed? I would say anyone who uses software emulation |
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instead of hardware acceleration only because of the license is a fanatic. |
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I noticed that there is some kind of flash application that becomes more |
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and more popular on sites [1] providing something like "funny clips |
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exchange service". In order to watch the clips one needs Flash Player. |
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AFAIK there is no Flash Player for amd64 and there is no Flash-8 for |
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linux. No doubt it is wrong, but I'm far from the idea that the clips |
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people send are not worth seeing because of technical or license issues. |
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So I want to have flash/wmv/whatever running under Gentoo instead of |
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depriving myself. |
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[1] http://www.metacafe.com/ |
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Best regards, |
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Daniel |
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