On 05/01/2012 11:52 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > I'm looking around on the web for ways to convert wmv files to mp4. So > far the most common solution seems to be ffmpeg but when I try that it > doesn't seem to understand the video files. The most common type of > comment people give is that this should be straight forward if 32-bit > codecs are installed. I'm running 64-bit and don't see what flags I > might need to set to get that? >
Can you play the WMV? The "wmv" extension usually indicates an ASF container, and the ASF container can have DRM. I see them every once in a while, and ffmpeg/mplayer have no idea what to do with them.