Bug 132267 – wmv3 USE flag for ffmpeg

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Filip Brcic 2006-05-04 09:24:02 UTC]

This new ebuild adds support for WMV3 codec to ffmpeg. For more info see the following two sites:

http://www.richardgoodwin.com/wp/2006/02/15/building-ffmpeg-to-support-windows-media-files/
http://multimedia.cx/eggs/?p=129

I have tested this on AMD64, but I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work on any other architecture.

[Comment 1 Filip Brcic 2006-05-04 09:24:58 UTC]

Created attachment 86145 [details]
ffmpeg ebuild with wmv3 use flag

[Comment 2 Filip Brcic 2006-05-04 09:25:35 UTC]

Created attachment 86147 [details, diff]
Patch for ffmpeg source

[Comment 3 Filip Brcic 2006-05-04 09:26:05 UTC]

Created attachment 86148 [details]
C file for SMPTE-VC1 codec

[Comment 4 Filip Brcic 2006-05-04 09:26:42 UTC]

Created attachment 86149 [details]
Makefile for libavcodec/libvc1 new codec in ffmpeg

[Comment 5 Filip Brcic 2006-05-04 09:28:16 UTC]

Comment on attachment 86148 [details]
C file for SMPTE-VC1 codec

This file goes to files directory

[Comment 6 Filip Brcic 2006-05-04 09:28:41 UTC]

Comment on attachment 86149 [details]
Makefile for libavcodec/libvc1 new codec in ffmpeg

This file goes to files directory

[Comment 7 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2006-05-04 10:17:16 UTC]

The legality of this is still to discuss.
Won't be patched, and left to upstream to include when they can.

[Comment 8 Filip Brcic 2006-05-04 11:24:51 UTC]

(In reply to comment #7)
> The legality of this is still to discuss.
> Won't be patched, and left to upstream to include when they can.

Ok. I will leave the ebuild on my server hoping that nobody will sue me :)
http://brcha.free.fr/files/ebuilds/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20060302-r1.ebuild

[Comment 9 Luca Barbato 2006-05-04 14:21:58 UTC]

http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=FFmpeg_Summer_Of_Code

hopefully a few months and won't be this problem anymore

[Comment 10 Jon Severinsson 2006-08-11 10:45:59 UTC]

(In reply to comment #9)
> http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=FFmpeg_Summer_Of_Code
> 
> hopefully a few months and won't be this problem anymore

The internal ffmpeg of mplayer-1.0_pre20060810 plays VC-1 files now!!
The playback isn't perfect, but at least they play.
I'd love to see this in system ffmpeg as well, so I can watch VC-1 files in kaffeine as well.
So basically this is a version bump request, can we get a ffmpeg snappshot from 20060810 or later please :).