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On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> <SNIP> |
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>>> Can you play the WMV? |
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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 Cannot play the files on my Gentoo box using Linux. No player that |
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>> I've tried so far - xine, mplayer, dragon player in KDE - none of them |
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>> play these files. However I can play the files within a Win7 VM on |
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>> this machine which is what I've been doing this morning so far. 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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>> |
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>> I just got access to these files today so until this morning I didn't |
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>> even know what format they'd be in. |
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> Expanding a bit I copied one of the files to a test directory to play |
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> with. It seems smplayer will actually play the audio but won't display |
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> video. midentify gives some data. When I look at the ffmpeg info it |
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> seems to me it's also having trouble with the video portion. At least |
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> it seems to understand the audio portion. |
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> I'm guessing the pivot point here is the video format code: |
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> ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=MSS2 |
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> Cheers, |
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> Mark |
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> |
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> mark@c2stable ~/WMV-Test $ midentify Test1.wmv |
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> ID_AUDIO_ID=1 |
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> ID_VIDEO_ID=2 |
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> ID_FILENAME=Test1.wmv |
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> ID_DEMUXER=asf |
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> ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=MSS2 |
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> ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=4971000 |
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> ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=1366 |
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> ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=740 |
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> ID_VIDEO_FPS=1000.000 |
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> ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000 |
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> ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=353 |
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> ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0 |
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> ID_AUDIO_RATE=0 |
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> ID_AUDIO_NCH=0 |
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> ID_START_TIME=5.00 |
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> ID_LENGTH=9130.09 |
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> ID_SEEKABLE=1 |
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> ID_CHAPTERS=0 |
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> ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=20008 |
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> ID_AUDIO_RATE=44100 |
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> ID_AUDIO_NCH=1 |
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> ID_AUDIO_CODEC=ffwmav2 |
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> ID_EXIT=EOF |
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> mark@c2stable ~/WMV-Test $ |
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http://wiki.debian.org/WindowsMediaVideo |
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Videos with the MSS2 FOURCC should be playable with the w32codecs package. |
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