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Contributed by: nekonoko Tuesday, April 19 2005 @ 10:12 AM PDT
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It works quite nicely with a standard .WMV (Windows Media 9) file I tried. However it doesn't seem to support WMV8/9 video streams encapsulated in an .AVI container (with an MP3 audio stream) which is kind of disappointing. I haven't found a Mac playback solution for that type of file yet.
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Useful - nekonoko
No, not these - I have several gigabytes of DIVX encoded files so I'm well aware of them :) These specific files are Windows Media 9 streams muxed with MP3 audio in an .AVI container. They only under Windows or x86 Linux with Windows DLL codecs installed.Tuesday, April 19 2005 @ 03:46 PM PDT
Useful - The iMac Man
You sound like you know your video, so I assume you have tried the video players: VLC and MPlayer, right?Tuesday, April 19 2005 @ 05:56 PM PDT
Useful - nekonoko
Absolutely - but as I mentioned there are no open source Windows Media 9 codecs available at this time. The only reason x86 Linux MPlayer/VLC works is because they can "capture" and utilize the Microsoft closed source x86 .DLL codecs. That's not possible under Mac OS X and simply play the soundtrack with no picture (tried XINE/Mplayer/VLC) - all on Mac OS X).This apparently isn't a big issue with most Mac users - I thought there would be more people who have Windows Media 9 AVI files but it looks like that's not the case :)
Wednesday, April 20 2005 @ 12:43 PM PDT
Useful - Selfinflicted Drama
I have the sound but no image issue. only its with streams from various news chanels. I'm getting rather frustrated with WMV...The goverment should lock up people who encode their stuff in WMV and shoot bill for unleashing this piece of crap encoding method... argh
Wednesday, April 27 2005 @ 07:10 AM PDT
Useful - kbotc
That would be divx or a DRM'd file. Most likely if it's in the AVI file capsule it's divx though.Reply to This
Tuesday, April 19 2005 @ 01:10 PM PDT