On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Bob Stia wrote:
> On Saturday 08 April 2006 02:19, Eben King wrote:
>> On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Bob Stia wrote:
>>> I have a bunch of *.wmv files that people send me by email. Size doesn't
>>> matter. Some are small and some are large. About half of them play with
>>> sound but no video. The others play perfectly well with either xine or
>>> mplayer.
>>>
>>> Anybody have a clue why that would happen?
>>
>> Might be a WMP 10-specific codec. Play one that DOESN'T work, and check
>> its codec in mplayer's output. Then play one that DOES work. Are they
>> different?
>
> Thanks Eben,
>
> Not sure if I can tell. Here is output from one that does NOT work:
> Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x33564D57.
> Here is one that DOES work:
> Selected video codec: [ffwmv2] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg M$ WMV2/WMV8)
> Of course the first one gives a message of wmv9 (and no video) and the 2nd
> shows wmv8 (amongst many other things which I cannot interpret) If you, or
> anybody else can, I would love to offer your opinions/expertise.
Presumably, if you found a codec that handled it you could force use of that
codec. But I don't know if anything will handle it.
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