[MEncoder-users] Re: WMV3/WMV9 encode

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 11/5/05, silent tone <silent_tone at comcast.net> wrote:
> RC <rcooley <at> spamcop.net> writes:
>
> >
> > On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 20:09:20 +0000 (UTC)
> > silent tone <silent_tone <at> comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > > The information page says that transcoding to WMV3 is possible,
> >
> > Where does it say that???  It should be possible to encode to WMV1/2,
> > but certainly not 3.
> >
>
> On the  information page it has a section labelled input formats, the next
> section lists supported codecs.  I thought that description meant it could
> encode WMV3.  Does anybody know why it's not supported.  I may add support for
> it if there's no technical or legal reason.

The tech reason is pretty simple: no body in the open source world
knows precisely how wmv 3 are generated, therefore there's no true
open source version of it in the wild.
As far as the legal stuff in concerned, yes, implementing wmv3 de/en
coding is probably not permitted anywhere, but so are most video
codecs, yet ffmpeg is there, so who cares about the legal side? :-P

Guillaume