[gentoo-user] .wmv files

2006-05-05 Thread WillieDaPimp
There are alot of web pages that I've tried to watch video clips on but i can't watch them due to the files being in .wmv format. Is there a plugin that I can emerge to view these files or maybe even a app that converts .wmv to some other linux friendly video file?? D. Tigue --

Re: [gentoo-user] .wmv files

2006-05-05 Thread Graham Murray
WillieDaPimp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are alot of web pages that I've tried to watch video clips on but i can't watch them due to the files being in .wmv format. Is there a plugin that I can emerge to view these files or maybe even a app that converts .wmv to some other linux friendly

Re: [gentoo-user] .wmv files

2006-05-05 Thread Rafael Fernández López
Try adding USE variable (make.conf) win32codecs and do a emerge -vuD --newuse world and see if they work... Bye !! Rafael Fernández López. WillieDaPimp escribió: There are alot of web pages that I've tried to watch video clips on but i can't watch them due to the files being in .wmv format.

Re: [gentoo-user] .wmv files

2006-05-05 Thread Farhan Ahmed
WillieDaPimp wrote: There are alot of web pages that I've tried to watch video clips on but i can't watch them due to the files being in .wmv format. Is there a plugin that I can emerge to view these files or maybe even a app that converts .wmv to some other linux friendly video file??

Re: [gentoo-user] .wmv files

2006-05-05 Thread kashani
Farhan Ahmed wrote: For converting from .wmv to other formats I recommend mencoder (it comes with MPlayer).. Make sure you compile MPlayer with win32codecs USE flag.. Here's an example to convert movie.wmv to movie.avi (DivX) : mencoder movie.wmv -o movie.avi -ovc lavc -oac lavc It's

Re: [gentoo-user] .wmv files

2006-05-05 Thread kashani
kashani wrote: It's important to note that the above only works for wmv8 and older files not the newer wmv9 codec that many sites/tools are starting to use. I don't believe there is any free decoder of wmv9 files on Linux at the moment. I take some of this back. I've got a custom

Re: [gentoo-user] .wmv files

2006-05-05 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Saturday, May 6 2006 3:27, kashani wrote: Farhan Ahmed wrote: For converting from .wmv to other formats I recommend mencoder (it comes with MPlayer).. Make sure you compile MPlayer with win32codecs USE flag.. Here's an example to convert movie.wmv to movie.avi (DivX) : mencoder