codec for windows media

klockren · Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 4:45 am Post subject: codec for windows media

Hi, which codec do I have to install on an AMD64-installation to watch windows media video files (WMV)? I have emerged the win32codecs and Divx and stuff works, but not WMV.

Wako · Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 4:47 am Post subject:

This may sound flippant, but did you try emerging mplayer? It can play WMV files.
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klockren · Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 6:44 am Post subject:

Yes, I've tried mplayer, kmplayer and gxine. *mplayer just shows a blank screen, gxine pops up a message about unknown format. No special USE flags to define before emerging mplayer? I had it working perfectly with all players in my old athlon-xp-install!

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klockren · Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 2:47 pm Post subject:

Hmmm... that thread orgigins from the time when win32codecs was hard-masked in portage... I emerged the ~amd64-ebuild a couple of weeks ago. I don't think it's worth to make a 32-bit chroot environment or install 32-bits mplayer, so I guess I'll just have to wait for enhanced codecs!

hvengel · Guru Joined: 19 Sep 2004 Posts: 515

The very latest win32codecs works nicely with the latest versions of (64 bit) mplayer and (64 bit) mplayerplug-in. I can play WMV files full screen with fairly low CPU useage as well as QuickTime movies.

Also the very latest verion of xine-lib is working great on my machine in 64 bit.

fangorn · Veteran Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 1886

Have you put wmv in your USE-Flags

wolfger · Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 4:49 pm Post subject:

hvengel · Guru Joined: 19 Sep 2004 Posts: 515

20050412 The ones marked ~amd64.

klockren · Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 7:19 am Post subject:

Yes, as I wrote before I have the ~amd64-marked win32codecs installed. Now I've been testing several WMV files, and mplayer only have problem with some of them. BUT, these WMV's worked excellent on my previous ~x86 machine.

b3cks · Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 7:48 am Post subject:

klockren · Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 1:47 pm Post subject:

wmv is NOT a USE flag for win32codecs.

c0balt · Guru Joined: 04 Jul 2004 Posts: 441 Location: Germany

Im not even on AMD64, but Im having problems playing WMV files lately too.

Dunno when this started, but all I get when I try to play a wmv is, sound and:

hvengel · Guru Joined: 19 Sep 2004 Posts: 515

I am not having any problems with WMV files. I get picture and sound. I do not get sound on QuickTime movies however, at least on the ones I have tried.

fox2mike · Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 2:01 pm Post subject:

Try setting the following in /etc/portage/package.use

media-video/mplayer win32codecs

and then re-emerge mplayer. Seems the win32codes USE flag now needs to be enabled for mplayer to have wmv support, and this wasn't the case the last time I played a wmv...

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parsim · Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 3:02 am Post subject:

madey · Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 2:14 pm Post subject:

I had the same probelm and here is the solution that I found:

- win32codecs can't work on 64b video engine so I:
- emerged xine (it has been compiled for my 64b arch)
- emerged mplayer-bin with win32codecs USE (it is special ebuild for amd64 compiled for 32b and it can work with win32codecs)
- win32codecs emerged as pretend for mpalyer-bin
- emerged kmplayer (kMplayer is a gui which can change during work - by pressing button - your video engine xine or mplayer)
- now I use my 64 b xine with kmplayer when I watch divix and mplayer-bin with kmplayer when I watch wmv, qt and so on
- only problem was that kmplayer is looking for mplayer file to run and you haven't got one, there is mplayer-bin (simply create a symlink)

You can of course use only mplayer-bin but I already have 64 xine and I like caffeine and it works only with xine so now I use both and can wait for win64codecs.

sorry for my pure english, hope you understand it

obsrv · Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 12:01 am Post subject:

madney, you said win64codecs. When will it be available?

madey · Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 4:00 pm Post subject:

I've just wrote that I can't wait. Sorry

I don't know when it will be available.

der_maddin · Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 12:36 am Post subject:

I don't want to prove you all wrong,

but on my rig, just emerging this ~amd64 masked mplayer-bin just does the trick.

anyway, thanks to madey for giving me the hint to emerge that one ...

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nukem996 · l33t Joined: 13 Nov 2003 Posts: 776

If you google around the DVD Jon cracked WMV3 and wrote a plugin for VLC, which is currently being put into the next version of VLC. This was awhile ago so im not sure what happened to it

der_maddin · Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 1:04 am Post subject:

well thanks for the hint.

But the solution described above matches my needs.

Anyway, i'll give the 'new' VLC a try ...
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nukem996 · l33t Joined: 13 Nov 2003 Posts: 776

FYI you can find it here

der_maddin · Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 2:13 am Post subject:

thx.

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