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Originally Posted by brendan
i tried to open a .wmv file with mplayer, and got jibberish and no video. was this version not compiled with the wmv extensions enabled or am i missing a config option?
I tried to find some .wmv samples and test them on Nokia 770 a few minutes ago (took sample from http://www.jhepple.com/support/sample_movies1.htm), it seems to me that everything is compiled in properly. But I would not call it very much usable as unfortunately wmv files seem to contain wma audio in them, and wma is not optimized for architectures without hardware floating point support in ffmpeg library (the engine that is used for mplayer) see some more details here: http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-dev...er/006437.html

What result exactly did you get with your wmv file? Can it be watched if you disable audio (using '-nosound' option)?

I wonder how many people would like to have .wmv video support in mplayer? Is it worth trying to fix it at all?

By the way, I found some link to a discussion about fixed point wma decoder patches: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/4984 (it may be interesting to those who would like to experiment with optimizing wma playback)