media conversion utilities in the ports

[Andrew Falanga]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 5:19 AM, Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 07:26:20PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
>  >
>  > On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 09:41 +0100, Michaël Grünewald wrote:
>  > > Andrew Falanga a écrit :
>  > > > Hi,
>  > > >
>  > > > A few quick searches on freshports.org didn't turn up much so I'm
>  > > > hoping that the knowledge here will eclipse it.  Are there any good,
>  > > > or workable, scriptable WMA to MP3 converter programs in ports?
>  > >
>  > > Mplayer pretends it can handle WMA files, however I did not try this
>  > > feature. See multimedia/mplayer, it installs an `mencoder' program you
>  > > might be interested in.
>  >
>  > you need the win32 codecs to make this work though.
>
>  No you don't. The built-in ffmpeg can handle it:
>
>  uname -a
>  FreeBSD slackbox.xs4all.nl 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Fri Feb 29
>  01:45:32 CET 2008  amd64
>
>  Note: win32 codecs don't even work on amd64!
>
>  mplayer foo.wma
>  MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
>  CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 4000+ (Family: 15, Model: 39, Stepping: 1)
>  CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
>  Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2
>
>  Playing foo.wma.
>  ASF file format detected.
>  [asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
>  Clip info:
>   name: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   author: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  ==========================================================================
>  Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
>  AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16002->176400)
>  Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
>  ==========================================================================
>  AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
>  Video: no video
>  Starting playback...
>

Thanks everyone.  This is great.

Andy

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