On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> > wrote: >> 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. >> > > I Cannot play the files on my Gentoo box using Linux. No player that > I've tried so far - xine, mplayer, dragon player in KDE - none of them > play these files. However I can play the files within a Win7 VM on > this machine which is what I've been doing this morning so far. I sort > of doubt the DRM restriction on this stuff. The web site asks > subscribers not to farward these to their friends, etc., and says > subscribers are on the honor system. They appears to be simple > recordings of of his screen and audio coming from an inexpensive mic. > Nothing more. > > I just got access to these files today so until this morning I didn't > even know what format they'd be in.
What do you get if you try 'midentify' (from mplayer) or 'midentify2' (from mplayer2)? -- :wq
