Re: [xine-user] MSS2 Codec Support?

[Marco <M.Z...@fr...>]

On Tuesday 13 January 2004 21:07, Bill Trenker wrote:
> First, I've just built xine from source on my Linux system -- works great! 
> Very impressive development.

Thanks.

> I'm working with a group that is using Windows Media Encoder 9 to produce a
> weekly webcast.  Of course this uses the Windows Media 9 MSS2 codecs to
> stream audio and video.  I'm trying to see if there is a Linux player yet
> that will handle the stream using these codecs.
>
> Just for reference, when I try to play a video encoded with the MSS2 codecs
> the xine-ui tells me: Video Codec: unavailable (MSS2)

This means that there is no codec which can handle a videostream with the 
fourcc "MSS2". 

> The terminal screen also has this:
> wine/module: Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: wmspdmod.dll,
> /usr/lib/win32/wmspdmod.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/wmspdmod.dll IMediaObject
> ERROR: 0x408651b6  could not open DMO DLL (0x0 : 0)

The audio part of your stream should be playable, but for that you have to 
install the win32 codecs (see the reply by James or read the FAQ: 
http://xinehq.de/index.php/faq#WMV). But that would give you audio only.

> I realize it's always going to be a challenge to keep up with the latest
> codecs.  I just thought I'd check to see if anyone knows if there is any
> sort of Linux support, even beta, for the MSS2 codecs yet.

If you could put a short sample (only some seconds, 100k, a downloadable file 
is better than a atream) somewhere. We could test, if it works. 

> Thanks,
> Bill
>

cu Marco