Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit or 64bit

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Michael Hampicke <gentoo-user@××××.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?
>
> --
> :wq
>

Point me toward a samples archive and I'll post a file.

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.

- Mark


mark@c2stable ~/Builder/1_BrooksPriceAction/2012_04 $ mplayer
-identify BTR20120330-3544edit.wmv
MPlayer SVN-r33094-4.5.3 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team

Playing BTR20120330-3544edit.wmv.
ASF file format detected.
ID_AUDIO_ID=1
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
ID_VIDEO_ID=2
[asfheader] Video stream found, -vid 2
VIDEO:  [MSS2]  1366x740  24bpp  1000.000 fps  4971.0 kbps (606.8 kbyte/s)
Load subtitles in ./
ID_FILENAME=BTR20120330-3544edit.wmv
ID_DEMUXER=asf
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=MSS2
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=4971000
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=1366
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=740
ID_VIDEO_FPS=1000.000
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=353
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
ID_AUDIO_RATE=0
ID_AUDIO_NCH=0
ID_START_TIME=5.00
ID_LENGTH=8713.83
ID_SEEKABLE=1
ID_CHAPTERS=0
==========================================================================
Requested video codec family [wmsdmod] (vfm=dmo) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Requested video codec family [wms10dmod] (vfm=dmo) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x3253534D.
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 20.0 kbit/2.84% (ratio: 2501->88200)
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=20008
ID_AUDIO_RATE=44100
ID_AUDIO_NCH=1
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=ffwmav2
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:  16.1 (16.0) of 8713.8 ( 2:25:13.8)  0.3%


MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: play_audio
ID_SIGNAL=2
A:  16.1 (16.1) of 8713.8 ( 2:25:13.8)  0.3%

Exiting... (Quit)
ID_EXIT=QUIT