[vlc] Re: VLC and WMV--anything being done?

[Måns Rullgård]

Benjamin Pracht <bigben+spam at videolan.org> writes:

> On Mon, Jun 06, 2005, Terry Jackson wrote :
>> Hi group!
>> I am using VLC 0.81 on a Mac running Panther (10.3.9)
>> and was just curious if anything was being done to
>> address VLC¹s inability to play back .WMV files,
>> due to MS new DRM structure. It seems like more and more,
>> .wmvs are being encoded with this DRM, and it makes it
>> impossible to play them using VLC, almost to the point
>> that I avoid websites altogether that have their video
>> encoded in .wmv.
>> 
>> Of course, the last build of WMPlayer for the Mac is v .9,
>> and it can¹t handle these file either.
>> 
>> just wondering.....
>> 
>
> VLC won't be able to read the WMV3 codec until somebody publishes a free
> decoder for it. ffmpeg is working on it, but this is a slow and painful
> process since so specs are publically available ATM.

There's a draft at http://jovian.com/files/C24.008-VC9-Spec-CD1.pdf.
It's a year old though, and I don't know what has been done to it
since.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru at inprovide.com

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