[Info-vax] Webinar "AUTOGEN and SYSGEN"

[Paul Sture]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:13:04 +0200, Dirk Munk wrote:

> Paul Sture wrote:
>> On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:59:01 +0000, VAXman- wrote:
>>
>>> In article
>>> <17223767.285.1335090309424.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums at ynbv36>,
>>> Bart Zorn<bart.zorn at gmail.com>  writes:
>>>> I have not attended the webinar held on January 28 titled "AUTOGEN
>>>> and SYSG= EN : History and architecture.". I downloaded both the PDF
>>>> and the WMV file=
>>>> as posted on openvms.org. I am not able to play the WMV file: VLC on
>>>> both =
>>>> OS X and Windows cannot play it and Windows Media Player can play it
>>>> but th= ere are two voices speaking at the same time about different
>>>> points of the = presentation.
>>
>> Here is what VLC 1.1.12 tells me:
>>
>> "No suitable decoder module:
>> VLC does not support the audio or video format "MSS2". Unfortunately
>> there is no way for you to fix this."
>>
>>
> This is what Mediainfo tells me:
> 
> Format                                   : Windows Media File size      
>                          : 51.1 MiB Duration                            
>     : 1h 1mn Overall bit rate mode                    : Constant Overall
> bit rate                         : 116 Kbps Maximum Overall bit rate    
>             : 296 Kbps Movie name                               :
> AUTOGEN Encoded date                             : UTC 2012-03-28
> 15:28:08.841
> 
> Video
> ID                                       : 2 Format                     
>              : Windows Media Codec ID                                 :
> MSS2 Codec ID/Info                            : Windows Media 9
> Description of the codec                 : Windows Media Video 9 Screen
> Duration                                 : 1h 1mn Bit rate mode         
>                   : Constant Bit rate                                 :
> 250 Kbps Width                                    : 1 366 pixels Height 
>                                  : 768 pixels Display aspect ratio      
>               : 16:9 Frame rate                               : 10.000
> fps Bit depth                                : 8 bits Bits/(Pixel*Frame)
>                       : 0.024 Stream size                              :
> 110 MiB Language                                 : English (US)
> 
> Audio
> ID                                       : 1 Format                     
>              : WMA Format version                           : Version 2
> Codec ID                                 : 161 Codec ID/Info            
>                : Windows Media Audio Description of the codec           
>      : Windows Media Audio 9.2 -  32 kbps, 44 kHz, mono (A/V) 1-pass CBR
> Duration                                 : 1h 1mn Bit rate mode         
>                   : Constant Bit rate                                 :
> 32.0 Kbps Channel(s)                               : 1 channel Sampling
> rate                            : 44.1 KHz Bit depth                    
>            : 16 bits Stream size                              : 14.1 MiB
> (28%) Language                                 : English (US)
> 
> It is indeed a obscure format, and a rather strange frame rate as well.
> In my view they should use a H.264 codec in a .mkv container, that is
> the defacto modern way of creating a video clip.
> 

Indeed obscure.  I have other .WMV files here (from Linux conferences) 
which are perfectly playable by VLC.

I am wondering if HP are at the mercy of the webinar service suppliers 
here...

-- 
Paul Sture