On Wednesday 27 September 2006 21:55, Peter Davoust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TOP-POSTED about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] How To Play WMV?': > On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 19:29 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 September 2006 06:25, "Christoph Mende" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64] How To Play > > WMV?': > > > Latest stable version of ffmpeg is supposed to support wmv. > > Yeah, I don't have any -bin packages installed on ~amd64 and I can > > play some WMVs. > There are different versions of wmv. Last time I checked (on Ubuntu > atleast), the 64 bit of the w32codecs didn't work for WMV 9. The 32 bit > one seems to work perfectly though. You also have to have 32-bit > mplayer.
Please don't top-post. Yeah, it really doesn't matter to me when proprietary formats aren't available. When I moved to amd64, I happily shed both flash and WMVs. (At the time I don't believe either firefox-bin or mplayer-bin was available.) I figure if it's not important enough for the producer/distributor to use accessible formats (Speex, Vorbis, FLAC, Theora, etc.) it's not important enough for me to spend time watching. *Insert Duncan's .sig here* -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh
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