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woogie

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From: Ottawa, ON

Registered: 2005-04-01

Posts: 45

Possibility regarding 64 bit native WMV9 support?

Hey all

I was getting a bit fed up with a series of trailers, all WMVs I wanted to watch on my Arch64 box, so I started poking around looking to see if mplayer et al had some way of viewing those files without cheesing the MS 32 bit binary codec. That's when I stumbled across this:

http://www.nanocrew.net/2005/09/01/compiling-vlc/

So it seems that with some help from a reference implementation we aren't supposed to redistribute (looks the other way and whistles), VLC can be made to play WMV9 (or WMV3 or VC-1 or whatever you want to call it) natively. I've been working off the instructions posted in the blog, and I've been able to overcome a couple small hiccups (had to symlink /usr/src/linux/include/linux into /usr/include/linux), but it seems the Makefile is (in a word) busted. It also looks like the configure script is quite tuned for Ubuntu (it looks for a /bin/universe), and autoconf/autotools/automake/m4 voodoo magic is well outside my comfort zone. Could someone with a bit more GNU mojo take a peek at this and see if they can tweak it to go through the build process for Arch64? This is by no means a permanent solution - I'm under the impression that ffmpeg are working on a proper OSS lib at the moment, but until that time ....

woogie

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From: Ottawa, ON

Registered: 2005-04-01

Posts: 45

Re: Possibility regarding 64 bit native WMV9 support?

And because I made a forum post about it, I was able to get libvc1 to compile all by myself after fixing some boneheaded errors! =P I'll see if I can get a patched version of VLC up and going now.

karsten

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Registered: 2006-07-14

Posts: 261

Re: Possibility regarding 64 bit native WMV9 support?

how's this coming?

woogie

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From: Ottawa, ON

Registered: 2005-04-01

Posts: 45

Re: Possibility regarding 64 bit native WMV9 support?

Poorly! As usual, I got distracted by who-knows-what and stopped working on it. I'm busy this weekend, but now that you've poked me I'll take another running jump at it to see what I can wrangle up. Apparently real, working OSS solutions will be coming out before long though

karsten

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Registered: 2006-07-14

Posts: 261

Re: Possibility regarding 64 bit native WMV9 support?

alright, cool

whargoul

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From: Odense, Denmark

Registered: 2005-04-04

Posts: 546

Re: Possibility regarding 64 bit native WMV9 support?

Why not just use 'ffmpeg'? It can handles WMV9.

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oliv

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Registered: 2005-04-17

Posts: 58

Re: Possibility regarding 64 bit native WMV9 support?

I tryed ffplay and it can"t read wma files. It start the program but it just make an ugly sound and stay open.

EDIT: It was crypted files. So it's normal. *%ù*$ drm !