[FFmpeg-user] playing audio file using ffmpeg from console

[Tom Evans]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Nyaika David <davie2086 at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi Carl
>
> Thanks for the thread,
>
> im using windows 7 and when i run the command below from the console
>
> *ffmpeg -i laser-01.wav -f alsa hw:0 *
>
> I get the following output
>

The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture is unlikely to exist on Windows
7. The command line you showed is intended to encode the audio to a
format ALSA will accept, and write it to a specific sound device.

Why don't you just use one of the many many players out there. mplayer
is built using a lot of shared ffmpeg code, but is designed to play
things, rather than convert them. Why not use that instead.

Cheers

Tom