DISCUSSION: Convert WMA to MP3
 

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do u have any idea for converting real media audio to mp3 format??

yes, i cant think of any reason this method wont work with real media audio,

in the script, just change references to *.wma to *.rm or whatever the extension is

thanks for u reply
but i tried that too
the problem with me i think is of appropriate plugins

i got the "all "and "esential" packages of plugins form mplayer's site
what else do i need in plugins??

regards

might havto try

http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/codecs.html

and install the realmedia codecs, i havent used these as i apt-get the win32codecs package in debian

Very nice. :) I have to give this a try sometime...

It *should* work with realmedia, i mean the process is basically the same, i think. I looked here for more info:

http://linuxathome.com/index.php?p=91

this process can be used for any tipe of media that your mplayer can play, including extracting the audio from video files (mov, wmv mpg etc)

im planning to make a GUI frontend to this using something like xdialog, ill need to learn a bit but it should come one day ;)

cool. :)

I have converted from real audio, just make sure you have the codecs installed for maplayer.

what plugins do u require for converting from real audio to mp3 etc ???

please post the command also

regards

http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...050115.tar.bz2
These are the real player 9 codecs. Look here for other codecs. Extract the codecs and put them in /usr/local/lib/codecs. MPlayer can convert to WAV, the script uses lame to convert the wav to mp3.

will try that

thanks!!

The script?
 

Why have to rename makes no sence to me.

for i in *.wma ; do mplayer -vo null -vc dummy -af resample=44100 -ao pcm -waveheader $i && lame -m s audiodump.wav -o $i; done


Becomes

for i in *.wma ; do mplayer -vo null -vc dummy -af resample=44100 -ao pcm -waveheader $i && lame -m s audiodump.wav -o "`basename "$i" .wma`.mp3"; done

This is safer due to the face that you are not directly deleting the file you are working on.

Now a cleanup at end would make more thought. Ie what happens if the conversion is bad.

true, thanks for the input,

if i could only edit the tutorial

hi,
how can I convert WMA to OGG using XINE?

I am hoping this won't turn into a Xine vs Mplayer flame thread.

bye