Re: WMV and iDVD
- From: sbt <dogbreath@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 11:05:00 -0800
In article <yzlirt74uhe.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Christopher C. Stacy
<cstacy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> sbt <dogbreath@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > In article <yzl7j9oplf2.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Christopher C. Stacy
> > <cstacy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> I want to convert a WMV file so that I can burn it with iDVD.
> >> (I tried ffmpegx, and it acts like it's doing something and
> >> chimes the dinner bell, but it doesn't write any files.)
> >>
> >
> > Did you uncheck the Use QuickTime to decode option? If that is checked,
> > you probably won't get anything from a wmv conversion.
>
> I can't find that checkbox; where is it?
> (But why would it be trying to use QuickTime?)
>
> > Is it a WMV that will play in either mplayer or vlc? If it isn't, then
> > ffmpegX won't be able to "read" it, either.
>
> mplayer plays the audio portion, but it gets these errors on the video:
> ==========================================================================
> Requested video codec family [wmv9dmo] (vfm=dmo) not available.
> Enable it at compilation.
> Requested video codec family [wmvdmo] (vfm=dmo) not available.
> Enable it at compilation.
> Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x33564D57.
> Read DOCS/HTML/en/codecs.html!
> ==========================================================================
>
> In the ffmpegX GUI, one of two things happens. Either it acts like it's
> decoding, but doesn't output anything, or else it immediately fails with
> a message about the "Output video width not divisible by 16".
>
> When I installed the ffmepgX, it asked me to manually download and
> install a bunch of unix programs (such as mplayer) but vlc was not
> among them. Is vlc another program I should be trying to use here,
> instead of ffmpegX?
There are three ways ffmpegX might use to decode a stream:
1) QuickTime (default for the DVD Presets in the Options pane)
2) mplayer, if you choose it instead of QuickTime in the Options pane
3) internal routines (which are the ones from vlc), if both QuickTime
and mplayer are unchecked in the Options pane
vlc is VideoLAN Client -- a pretty nice "player" application that is
available for multiple platforms, one of which is OS X.
The fact that you're getting errors related to wmv9 indicates that you
might be out of luck -- try playing it with vlc or converting with the
shareware app, flip4mac, to something QuickTime can play. A lot of the
wmv9 stuff I've seen has had DRM (digital rights management)
restrictions placed in it, making conversions extremely difficult :(
--
Spenser
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