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From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?
Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 17:58:16
Message-Id: 4FA023B7.1010207@orlitzky.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4? by Mark Knecht
1 On 05/01/2012 11:52 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
2 > I'm looking around on the web for ways to convert wmv files to mp4. So
3 > far the most common solution seems to be ffmpeg but when I try that it
4 > doesn't seem to understand the video files. The most common type of
5 > comment people give is that this should be straight forward if 32-bit
6 > codecs are installed. I'm running 64-bit and don't see what flags I
7 > might need to set to get that?
8 >
9
10 Can you play the WMV?
11
12 The "wmv" extension usually indicates an ASF container, and the ASF
13 container can have DRM. I see them every once in a while, and
14 ffmpeg/mplayer have no idea what to do with them.

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Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4? Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>