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On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 05/01/2012 11:52 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> I'm looking around on the web for ways to convert wmv files to mp4. So |
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>> far the most common solution seems to be ffmpeg but when I try that it |
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>> doesn't seem to understand the video files. The most common type of |
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>> comment people give is that this should be straight forward if 32-bit |
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>> codecs are installed. I'm running 64-bit and don't see what flags I |
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>> might need to set to get that? |
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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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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. |