Getting rid of proprietary software: VC-1/WMV9 in ffmpeg

Monday, August 7. 2006

Getting rid of proprietary software: VC-1/WMV9 in ffmpeg

Thanks to Kostya, ffmpeg now supports the VC-1 codec, which is also used in Microsofts WMV9-format.

In the past, for Linux-users it was only possible to play those videos with win32codecs, which use proprietary windows-dlls and don't work on non-x86-platforms. With this improvement, one of the most common multimedia-formats unsupported by free software can now be played with all major free players (as ffmpeg is used by vlc, xine, mplayer, totem and many others).

Congrats to the ffmpeg-guys. The easiest way to get stuff playing is getting mplayer from svn (I used the mplayer-svn-ebuild from this Multimedia Overlay with some small modifications).

(via Breaking Eggs and making Omelettes)

Posted by Hanno Böck in English, Gentoo, Linux, Movies at 19:00 | Comments (6) | Trackback (1)

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Was ist daran jetzt besonders ???
Ich finde es sehr löblich wenn Real Networks ankündigt, noch in diesem Jahr den eigenen Open Source Multimedia Player Helix um die Fähigkeit zu erweitern Windows Media Dateien abspielen zu können. Dumm an der Sache ist nur das FFMPEG (und damit jed...

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!!!! Finally :-D Damn I've been waiting forever for this.

#1 Chris White on 2006-08-08 01:34 (Reply)

Yay! SMPTE was so bloody slow!

#2 James Le Cuirot on 2006-08-08 10:36 (Reply)

I can't believe this! :D

#3 kanttu on 2006-08-10 14:16 (Reply)

sigh, I'm going to kill that guy...

I removed my live svn-ebuild just because mplayerhq.hu doesn't have enough bandwidth to cope!

I guess it's time to provide updated snapshots...

#4 lu_zero on 2006-08-10 15:28 (Reply)

be carefull, darling...

#5 without captcha? on 2006-08-17 18:37 (Reply)

The problem is only that most of VC-1 content is encrypted and Linux has no DRM... so that is actually quite useless for public content applications.

#6 me on 2006-10-20 00:57 (Reply)

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Getting rid of proprietary software: VC-1/WMV9 in ffmpeg

Monday, August 7. 2006

Getting rid of proprietary software: VC-1/WMV9 in ffmpeg

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