Server Side WMV 9 encoding is it now possible?

[pmedia]

Server Side WMV 9 encoding is it now possible with for example FFMPEg?

Source is divx or mpeg1 can it be converted to WMV9 on our unix server? :helpful:

[nm]

It is probably possible, but not with FFmpeg (at least not yet). If your UNIX server is an x86 system, you could consider running some Windows-based command-line encoding app in Wine. AFAIK there are no native VC-1 or WMV9 encoder implementations for any Unix-type operating systems (except OS X).

[pmedia]

Hi nm,
We're using freebsd do you know if your plan would work for that OS?

[nm]

It might work since Wine is available for FreeBSD. Still, it's possible that WMV encoders won't work in Wine at all because I haven't heard anyone doing this. You'll have to try it yourself.

And be careful when infesting your BSD servers with Microsoft's codecs ;)

[zambelli]

Is the question about encoding or streaming? Encoding might be possible with non-MS tools since WMV9 has been standardized as VC-1, but streaming is a whole different story - I don't know if anyone has put any real effort into reverse engineering Windows Media Services and porting them to UNIX.

[pmedia]

Is the question about encoding or streaming? Encoding might be possible with non-MS tools since WMV9 has been standardized as VC-1, but streaming is a whole different story - I don't know if anyone has put any real effort into reverse engineering Windows Media Services and porting them to UNIX.

HI Zambelli,

This is only to encode some old mpeg1 files already located on the servers, not for streaming. So any tool for our NIX system that can do MPEG1=>WMV9 would be perfect.

[zambelli]

I can't think of any companies which make commercial encoding products that also deliver WMV encoding functionality to UNIX platforms.

You may want to try Mencoder (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html). It's open-source and its support of WMV encoding is unofficial, but if it works - it works.

[buzzqw]

afaik mencoder/ffmpeg have only support for wmv7 and wmv8

BHH

[Reimar]

Well, there is a patch that was never fully finished here:
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2007-June/031699.html