On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> >> wrote: > <SNIP> >>> 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. > > Expanding a bit I copied one of the files to a test directory to play > with. It seems smplayer will actually play the audio but won't display > video. midentify gives some data. When I look at the ffmpeg info it > seems to me it's also having trouble with the video portion. At least > it seems to understand the audio portion. > > I'm guessing the pivot point here is the video format code: > > ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=MSS2 > > Cheers, > Mark > > mark@c2stable ~/WMV-Test $ midentify Test1.wmv > ID_AUDIO_ID=1 > ID_VIDEO_ID=2 > ID_FILENAME=Test1.wmv > ID_DEMUXER=asf > ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=MSS2 > ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=4971000 > ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=1366 > ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=740 > ID_VIDEO_FPS=1000.000 > ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000 > ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=353 > ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0 > ID_AUDIO_RATE=0 > ID_AUDIO_NCH=0 > ID_START_TIME=5.00 > ID_LENGTH=9130.09 > ID_SEEKABLE=1 > ID_CHAPTERS=0 > ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=20008 > ID_AUDIO_RATE=44100 > ID_AUDIO_NCH=1 > ID_AUDIO_CODEC=ffwmav2 > ID_EXIT=EOF > mark@c2stable ~/WMV-Test $
http://wiki.debian.org/WindowsMediaVideo Videos with the MSS2 FOURCC should be playable with the w32codecs package. -- :wq
