WMV9 codec for xine?

[Paul Higgins]

Well, I did a bit of research on the web and found out that apparently there 
was recently a proof-of-concept hack to xine/MPlayer/VLC to add compatibility 
with the new WMV codecs.  They apparently did this by using the info given by 
Microsoft to various international standards groups, thereby 
reverse-engineering the WMV codec.  Anyway, that's about as far as it appears 
to have gone at this point.  Too bad, because I can get most all of the WMV 
stuff to play on OS X by using a combination of WiMP, VLC, and QuickTime 
(with the Flip4Mac plugin).  Having said that, VLC is the app that has the 
most trouble with the newer WMVs.

-PRH

On Tuesday 21 February 2006 20:46, Cian Duffy wrote:
> On 21/02/06, Paul Higgins <higg0008 at tc.umn.edu> wrote:
> > Sorry, guys...didn't mean to ignite a flamewar!
>
> It was nothing to do with you ;) I'd invite people to look at the list
> archives if they think I was over-reacting to Derick.
>
> > So there is no binary codec available for PPC, then?  I'm a little
>
> confusedbecause the xine site, > and some of the documentation that came as
> part of
>
> Theres no wrapper for the Quicktime components for PowerPC, only for x86
> DLL's. It could probably be implemented but would be extremely complex.
>
> There is work on a vc1 - Microsoft's HD-DVD proposed codec - decoder in
> ffmpeg, which is by and large compatible with wmv3. Any PowerPC Linux
> support for WMV3 is likely to come from this.
>
> Cian