Audio but no video in some wmv's and CNN.com - SUSE 10
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From: Charlie on 18 Oct 2005 21:48 I've got SuSe 10 installed on an x86_64 machine. I've got Mplayer installed, w32codec_all installed, and the 32 bit mplayer browser plugin. For the most part, mplayer works fine - it plays many wmv's, all mpg's, all avi's, and many asf files just fine. It works as a plugin in firefox as well for most things. However for some wmvs, some asfs, and the streaming video on cnn.com I get audio but no video. How can I get video as well as audio for these files? Is there a missing codec or something? I'd appreciate any help. Thanks. Charlie.
From: Chris Wilkinson on 18 Oct 2005 23:31 Hi there, Charlie wrote: > I've got SuSe 10 installed on an x86_64 machine. I've got Mplayer > installed, w32codec_all installed, and the 32 bit mplayer browser plugin. > For the most part, mplayer works fine - it plays many wmv's, all mpg's, > all avi's, and many asf files just fine. It works as a plugin in firefox > as well for most things. However for some wmvs, some asfs, and the > streaming video on cnn.com I get audio but no video. How can I get video > as well as audio for these files? Is there a missing codec or something? No missing codec, just WMV9 video format in the wmv file. xine and mplayer can handle WMV7/8 format, but not WMV9 (or WMV3 as it is called sometimes)...MS are not going to allow free software authors info as to how to play such files, so unless someone cracks the codec we cannot view the video content of those... I'd love to see a legal precedent set whereby people who upload videos to the net are required to do so in an open format so everyone can see them. It amuses me that people upload videos that are free to download, but encoded with a non-free codec...these people are being hypocrits and they don't even realise it... Microsoft must burn... -- Kind regards, Chris Wilkinson, Brisbane, Australia. Anyone wishing to email me directly can remove the obvious spamblocker, and replace it with t p g <dot> c o m <dot> a u
From: Charlie on 19 Oct 2005 14:32 On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:31:42 +1000, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > No missing codec, just WMV9 video format in the wmv file. xine and > mplayer can handle WMV7/8 format, but not WMV9 (or WMV3 as it is > called sometimes)...MS are not going to allow free software authors > info as to how to play such files, so unless someone cracks the codec > we cannot view the video content of those... > > I'd love to see a legal precedent set whereby people who upload videos > to the net are required to do so in an open format so everyone can see > them. It amuses me that people upload videos that are free to download, > but encoded with a non-free codec...these people are being hypocrits > and they don't even realise it... > > Microsoft must burn... Ridiculous! Typical of Microsoft. Is it possible to use the actual Windows codec?
From: Charles philip Chan on 19 Oct 2005 15:44 On 18 Oct 2005, blobster(a)spamoff.con wrote: > No missing codec, just WMV9 video format in the wmv file. xine and > mplayer can handle WMV7/8 format, but not WMV9 (or WMV3 as it is > called sometimes)... This is untrue, both mplayer and xine can handle wmv9 by using the wmv9dmod.dll through the win32 dmo codec loader. Here is part of my mplayer codecs.conf: ,----[ Excerpt from codecs.conf ] | videocodec wmv9dmo | info "Windows Media Video 9 DMO" | status working | fourcc WMV3 | fourcc WMVP | driver dmo | dll "wmv9dmod.dll" | guid 0x724bb6a4, 0xe526, 0x450f, 0xaf, 0xfa, 0xab, 0x9b, 0x45, 0x12, 0x91, 0x11 | out YV12 ;,I420,IYUV | out YUY2,UYVY | ; out BGR32,BGR24,BGR16 ;,BGR15 `---- YMMV though since my mplayer, ffmpeg and lib-xine are from CVS. My codecs packages are the pristine ones from the mplayer site. IMHO, the reason why Charlie can't play those video is because of DRM. Charlie, can you provide me with a link to a non-working video? Charles -- printk ("Kicking board.\n"); linux-2.6.6/drivers/net/lp486e.c
From: Charlie on 19 Oct 2005 17:48
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:44:51 -0400, Charles philip Chan wrote: > IMHO, the reason why Charlie can't play those video is because of > DRM. Charlie, can you provide me with a link to a non-working video? Try anything on CNN.com. Right now I'm listening to mms://wmscnn.stream.aol.com/cnn/us/2005/10/19/jeras.explains.wilma.cnn.ws.wmv. It's supposedly a video stream, but I get only audio. |