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On 1 May 2012, at 19:03, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> Since .mp4 video most always means h264 encoding, this means slow and dirty transcoding, which will inherently cause loss of video quality. You want to avoid transcoding if you can. |
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> Hi Stroller, |
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> I subscribed to a trading service that provides 6 1/2 hour videos |
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> of the day's market action with audio commentary for each trading day |
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> of the week. I like this trader who does the commentary so after the |
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> market closes I'd like to review what he thought about the day's |
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> action. These files are available only in wmv format. They play fine |
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> inside of a Windows VM using Windows Media Player on my Gentoo box but |
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> I'd prefer to be able to review them in Linux using xine or some other |
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> app. |
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Ah, so no good alternative, then, and you probably don't care so much about video quality, as long as it's watchable. |
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>> The "wmv" extension usually indicates an ASF container, and the ASF |
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>> container can have DRM. I see them every once in a while, and |
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>> ffmpeg/mplayer have no idea what to do with them. |
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> … I sort |
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> of doubt the DRM restriction on this stuff. The web site asks |
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> subscribers not to farward these to their friends, etc., and says |
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> subscribers are on the honor system. They appears to be simple |
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> recordings of of his screen and audio coming from an inexpensive mic. |
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> Nothing more. |
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It might well be worth trying these win32codecs, then - setting the USE flag in mplayer and re-emerging. I wouldn't hold my breath, but it's worth a go. He's probably using some MS screencast software. |
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Stroller. |
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