Gotta love good ol M$ for making a useless audio format

I have tried EVERYTHING I've found on Google and around different forums to get wma's to work.

I have tried plug-ins for xmma, no go

I seem to have all the codecs in the /usr/local/lib/codecs for Win32. When I open the .wma, it tries to use the ffmpeg codec. I don't think that is the right one. Is there a way to force it to use another codec? All other formats (mpeg, avi, asf, wmv, mp3, mov, wav) have all been tested successfully. I think the .wma file might be protected, does that make a difference? It is a WMP9 file.

Any help would be appreciated

thanks

b

may be work

www.mplayerhq.hu

download the pre4

it's compilation with win32 codec support it not a easy task
u should read the read me carefully
if u try only ./configure the it will compile without win32, and gui support


so

try this one i have done
./configure --enable-gui --enable-divx4linux --enable-libavcodec --enable-vorbis --enable-mad --enable-mp3lib --enable-liba52 --enable-alsa --enable-ossaudio --enable-arts --enable-runtime-cpudetection --with-codecsdir=/usr/local/lib/ --enable-win32 --with-xvidlibdir=/usr/local/lib/ --with-win32libdir=/usr/local/lib/codecs/

before this
try ./configure --help or ./configure -help (i have forget)

i have download these
from sf.net

ogmtools-1.4
xvidcore-1.0.0-rc4 (optional)
lame-3.96 (to encode in mp3)
and win32 codec from mplayerhq site

locate this in ./configure option then make and make install as root

see the man pages of mplayer

-enjoy

everything possible in linux...

well, first off I can't get it to install with GUI, I get and error for PNG and libpng-dev, so I tried to run the configure without GUI.....it works alright until towards the end, then it terminates with an eror........

b

have u download any skins
???

it's a tough job for a beginner to get mplayer compiled, but that's the only way to play wma's. download and compile all the packages the readme and website say you need, and keep trying until you get it.

If you have a distribution like Mandrake, you can cheat (that was a refreshing discovery) by installing the rpm files and it "just works". I believe the copy that "just works" is in "contrib" or "Plf". If not, you should be okay if you follow the directions carefully. Why not get those libs too, as they are use by other proggies.

well I can get it to compile, just not with all those options. I seem to be missing things it needs to compile. I try to install those and it doenst seem to work. I have tried for hours, and it just wont play wma files, anything else but wma......Ill get it eventually I suppose

I had a bunch of .m4a music files that I could not play on linux (from iTunes). I found this post http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...&highlight=m4a that allowed me to convert .m4a to .wav to mp3. It works really nice and is a simple shell script. You may be able to use it to convert your .wav's to .mp3 instead of trying to play .wav files. It uses lame for the conversion. Just a thought.

EDIT

Sorry, I mis read the post as wav instead of wma, I didn't have my glasses on.

/EDIT

When you run the configure script of MPlayer, I think it searches out all avaliable codecs, and prepares to compile support for those it finds. You should only need "--enable-xxx" options for codes that are not installed when compiling mplayer, but that you are going to install.

Remember, however, that every time you install a new codec, you will need to run ./configure and make again, in order for MPlayer to use it.

I've never used a graphical front end with mplayer, but bare in mind that if you cannot get the default one to work, just compile it without the GUI, and use one of the third party ones. Check out http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/projects.html.

According to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/info.html, in order to play WMA9 you need the .dll (win32) codecs. Have you installed them all/are you sure they're in the right place?

When I play .wma s (not sure of the version), ti reports:

Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 16002->176400 (128.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm:ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (ffmpeg))

I have use mplayer to play wma for alomost a year now. What distribution do you use. If you use Mandrake there is mplayer on the cd and you just installed it with mandrake wizards. If you have a distro that supports rpm try rpmfind.net it is the easyest way to get it work.
If you get to install mplayer I would recomend you tu use kplayer is a lot better than gmplayer the default gui for mplayer.

Hope you have luck