Will Wmv Ever Play On The Gp2x?


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I ran a couple of searches, wmv, windows media video, wmv help etc... nothing came up.

Is anything being worked on to introduce wmv support?
 
Why? Since you can convert your wmv files to .avi
 
It would always be easier to just drag-and-drop files instead of having to convert anything.... but yes, till now you have to convert your wmv's. hopefully someone will once include wmv support.
 
technicaly its completely possible and was as well first planed, but gph decided not to support it at first cause of the high licensing cost's.
But maybe it will once be supported, however i couldnt care less for a properitairy bloated shitty format.
 
craigix posted on Aug 4 2006 at 06:25 PM said:
Well... it can be added to mplayer...


I've read a bit about mplayer, but I'm afraid of using my generic sd card and destroying the gp2x :S
 
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Uhm, mplayer wont destroy your gp2x. it's just a movie player.

Like winamp...... or windows media player..oh wait screw that, windows media player WILL destroy your pc! ;)
 
Anyone know a good way to convert wmv to avi in Linux?

I usually use mencoder which works just fine for everything, but when I try to convert a wmv a get really shity quality and loads of droped frames.

I can play wmv just fine (along with everything else I've tried), but the dropped frames thing is a frustration.
 
Mplayer won't run it because it only as available an x86 codec. There isn't a version of Microsoft's wmv decoder for the arm platform EDIT: that's been worked on and is available to mplayer like the x86 binary is.
 
hackgrid posted on Aug 4 2006 at 03:35 PM said:
But that MM2blaablathingy supports WMW playback, doesnt it?
MM2SP (sp?)? I think that's what the licensing was for.
 
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Vimacs posted on Aug 4 2006 at 04:10 PM said:
...however i couldnt care less for a properitairy bloated shitty format.
Yes, it ¡s proprietary and by microsoft, but bloated? My gosh, do you actually have a clue what you're talking about?

Good old microsoft = bloated&evil fanboyism, eh?

WMV is *technically* a nice clean fast (in relation to what it can do) codec, many other codecs like DivX are based on it.

I would never use it, because its proprietary and there are better codecs, but it ¡s a hell of a lot better than other codecs with DRM, like rmv.
 
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Fishbong posted on Aug 5 2006 at 12:11 AM said:
Vimacs posted on Aug 4 2006 at 04:10 PM said:
...however i couldnt care less for a properitairy bloated shitty format.
Yes, it ¡s proprietary and by microsoft, but bloated? My gosh, do you actually have a clue what you're talking about?

Good old microsoft = bloated&evil fanboyism, eh?

WMV is *technically* a nice clean fast (in relation to what it can do) codec, many other codecs like DivX are based on it.

I would never use it, because its proprietary and there are better codecs, but it ¡s a hell of a lot better than other codecs with DRM, like rmv.
Duh, microsoft's name is sooo fat that when it sits around the house it really sits around the house, and by house I mean m$ hq, thus making microsoft an autobloat ;)
 
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Blah posted on Aug 4 2006 at 12:02 PM said:
MMSP2 doesn't support WMV, nor did it ever.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: *breathe* :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

The Hardware decoder is nothing more than a video compression/decompression maths cruncher, and yes, it does support WMV, but it is looking like we will have to code for it, maybe.

The mplayer we got with the firmware is simply crippled in the ability to read containers and/or streams, I am pretty sure the driver for the actual "940t + hardware decoder" will decode them if mplayer asks them properly.
 
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We are both right. What I meant was, it doesn't support WMV *IN HARDWARE*, of course.

Wait...maybe I'm not right...whatever.
 
Blah posted on Aug 5 2006 at 01:38 AM said:
We are both right. What I meant was, it doesn't support WMV *IN HARDWARE*, of course.

Wait...maybe I'm not right...whatever.
What do you think the MMSP2 is??
 
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It isn't what you think it is. Its a System-on-a-Chip, not a video decoder. Granted, it does have one, but mainly it is a cpu.

MagicEyes Digital co. said:
Video Performance
MPEG1 Decode
- Video CD
MPEG4 SP/ASP Decode @720 x 480, 30fps
- DivX 3.11, 4.X, DivX 5.x with Q-PEL
JPEG Encode / Decode up to 4M pixels
-Digital Still Camera
^^ Hardware codecs?

MagicEyes Digital co. said:
MP3, WMA Decode & Codec : Support from Microsoft¢ç (porting Windows¢ç CE.NET)
^^ In this example, the support is part of the WinCE software. So Magiceyes doesn't mind listing what it can do in software (theoretically speaking, just about anything).

Then again it could also mean the WinCE supports the hardware decoder, but thats not how I interpret it.

I could be wrong though.

Oh and I also noticed that theres builtin svideo, which poses the question "Why does GPH need the Creative tvout chip?".
 
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