[MPlayer-users] Re: Error while trying to play WMV files

Wed Jan 11 21:21:14 CET 2006

On Wednesday, 11 January 2006 at 20:19, bountyjedi wrote:
> 
> 
> Can you give some information about your system, please.
> Otherwise it is hard to tell. 
> 
> For example I get that error (or atleast something similar I'm too 
> lazy to check it out) when trying to play WMV on my mac using mplayer,
> but not under windows and Linux. 
> The reason, there aren't any libraries for PPC to play WMV.

Well, for WMV3 you can use the reference VC1 decoder if you managed
to get the source from smpte.org before they pulled it. It's slow
as hell, but should work.

R.

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