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