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On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Michael Hampicke <gentoo-user@××××.biz> wrote: |
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>>>> Video-codecs? I haven't seen a video in years that was not playable by 64bit |
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>>>> ffmpeg based players but worked with 32bit. |
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>>> <SNIP> |
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>>> Lots of wmv files won't play in 64-bit. That's the only one I have |
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>>> trouble with. They play fine in 32-bit Gentoo. |
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>> Mark, was thinking of you and your videos that don't play on 64bit when |
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>> I read Volkers statement :) |
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>> ffmpeg know lots of shit, but not all if it. |
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> Yeah, that's the truth. I suspect this specific case just lacks a |
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> smart developer who wants to figure it all out and do the work to make |
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> an Open Source codec that plays the file type, but maybe there's |
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> patents and other junk that gets in the way. |
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It's possible they just don't have a sample to work with. If you can |
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send it to them, they can at least add it to their samples archives. |
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> And really, as I use a lot of VM's all day long, it doesn't seem |
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> overly important any more. It's trivial to just run a Windows VM to |
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> play wmv files whereas finding someone in the Linux world who actually |
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> cares about supporting and promoting the wmv format seems like a waste |
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> of my time and theirs. They can work on better things. |
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There are containers and codecs. Most containers are supported, |
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leaving the codecs. |
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Can you post the output of 'mplayer -identify $filename' on that file? |
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