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

[martinnitram]

Moritz Barsnick <barsnick <at> gmx.net> writes:

> 
> 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.
  I can't sure that. But just everything work fine at 32 bit FC3 + rpmfind.net
ffmepg rpm and .dll files from mplayer website. Maybe source tarball included
all codecs.

> 
> > 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)"
  maybe caused by newest version if WMV? coz those files download from microsoft
website and should be in WMV3 format (code 0x162)


> HTH,
> Moritz
>