[MEncoder-users] wmv audio codecs support at linux 64 bit system?

[Moritz Barsnick]

Hi Martin,

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 15:31:07 +0000, martinnitram wrote:

> (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/windows-all-*.zip)
> to mplayer codecs directory (something like /usr/lib/win32/), then
> use can ffmpeg/mencoder to decode wmv video/audio to avi format.

I believe ffmpeg does _not_ use such external DLLs.

> it seem ffmpeg/mencoder can't use those file to decode wmv audio (it
> shown error "Cannot find codec for audio format 0x162" from
> mencoder).

Recent libavcodecs, which are developed with ffmpeg and used by mplayer
and mencoder, also support WMV and WMA natively. Well, perhaps not all
versions of Win*ows Media, but it has worked fine for me quite some
while.

ffmpeg -formats | grep -E "wm(a|v)"

HTH,
Moritz