[MPlayer-users] problem playing wma

[Kichigai Mentat]

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On Mar 30, 2006, at 06.15, David Wolfson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is my first post to the list, but I've been searching through the
> archives and hope that someone will be able to help.
>
> I've been using Linux for a couple of years now, and have finally  
> gotten round
> to sorting out my music. Much of it is in wma format, and I'm  
> hoping to using
> mplayer and lame to convert it to mp3s. The problem is that I can't  
> get
> mplayer to play them in the first place.

Truth be told, if you're an audiophile, that's a bad idea. If you  
still have the original sources of the music, it's best to go  
directly from the CD (or whatever). If you're not, then you might not  
notice.

>
> I'm using mandrake10.1 community and have installed rpms for  
> mplayer and
> win32-codecs. It works fine playing mp3, but when I try wma (that  
> are ok in
> windows) I get the output below, and no sound. I'm guessing that  
> its a codec
> problem, but have no idea how to sort it out.
>
> Any ideas please?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Dave
>
>
> MPlayer dev-CVS-051220-04:08-3.4.1 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
                   ^^^^^^
Your version is almost four months out of date. Given that things  
change in CVS pretty quickly, you might want to look into updating.

[snip]

> 89 audio & 203 video codecs

[snip]

> Playing 02 Track 2.wma.
> Cache fill:  9.59% (804509 bytes)
> ASF file format detected.
> Clip info:
>  name: Track 2
>  author: 2 Many DJs
> ====================================================================== 
> ====
> Trying to force audio codec driver family libmad...
> Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
> AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 64.0 kbit/4.54% (ratio: 8003->176400)
> Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
> ====================================================================== 
> ====
> Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 0Hz/0ch/??...
> AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
> Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 44100Hz/2ch/ 
> s16le...
> Video: no video
> Starting playback...
> A:  -0.0 (unknown) of 98.0 (01:38.0) ??,?% 0%
>
> Exiting... (End of file)

od; Pentium 4 EE/Xeon Prestonia,Gallatin
It would be helpful if you could tell us what happens between "A:   
- -0.0 (unknown) and "Exiting..." Does anything play, or does it stop  
instantly?

Also, if you could run MPlayer again, this time with -v so we can get  
a bit more information. Other things that could help us out is if you  
could provide a sample of a WMA file that doesn't work, so we can  
compare you output to our own. This would help us narrow things down.
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