Windows Media Video .wmv player Enigma2

[laraaj]

Does anyone knows about an Enigma2 player of .wmv video format or do you know about any image for Vu+ uno which support playing .wmv videos.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions or help.

[Rob van der Does]

The drivers of the VU boxes do not (yet??) support WMV.
Maybe asking VU (by as many clients as possible) will help.

[laraaj]

Thanks for your quick replay. maybe we should work on it the hard way and import one of the software codecs used on Linux like FFMPEG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg. It's already available on images like VIX. I'm not really sure if wmv videos works on VIX because i didn't test that when i was testing VIX I'm using VTI right now. Can anybody confirm that wmv videos don't work on VIX too after installing FFmeg or is it just the players that are coded not to see the wmv videos. I remember there was a problem with a .avi which needed a specific codec that wasn't supported by the default codecs available on VIX image that's why i installed FFmpeg and it's plugins from the VIX plugins Menu and the .avi video which wasn't working worked. please explain why can't FFmpeg decode wmv on our receivers ?
The Broadcom chip BCM7413 we have on Vu+ uno and ultimo
http://www.broadcom.com/products/IPTV/IPTV-Solutions/BCM7413 doesn't have any built in codecs for playing WMV videos that's why there is no support for that format on the official images yet so there is no choice but to implement a software solution if it's not already there and just needs to be activated.
Also don't expect to see any software implementation included in the official images of Dreambox or Vu+ because since the chip maker Broadcom didn't buy a license from Microsoft to implement Hardware codecs of WMV videos and WMA in there chip Manufacturers like Dream Multimedia and Vu+ wouldn't bother to pay Microsoft to implement a software solution for a receivers they are already selling. so the support for this format has to come from the community.

[Larry-G]

please do not post live links on the forum, I have edited them out this time.

also as far as i am aware it is not a simple matter of installing software based codecs like you would with a PC, the codecs in these receivers are handled on a hardware level so you must wait for the manufacturer to include support in their hardware drivers.

[Rob van der Does]

A STB has no power to do software-decoding; that's the reason only the codec's that are present in the chipset can be decoded.
And in this case it's quite simple: the UNO & Ultimo chipsets do support WMV; it's just that the drivers should support it.
ET uses the same chips, and has recently done that: that's why I suggest to ask VU to do the same.