Amarock - wma format questions
Tim
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Sun May 25 07:38:47 UTC 2008
On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 23:25 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> Just for grins, I located several wma files and mplayer plays them
> just fine.
There's some WMA files that mplayer will handle, and others that it will
not.
e.g. From http://www.theatreorgans.com/walnuthill/eugenehayek.htm
download http://www.theatreorgans.com/walnuthill/Hayek_Five_Foot_Two.wma
And it wouldn't play, for me. Yet, lots of other WMA files from that
page worked fine.
It wanted to make use of wma9dmod.dll (which it can't find). I do have
it in /usr/local/lib/codecs/wma9dmod.dll (which is supposed to be one of
the places that it will look).
If you find it won't play a file, try playing from the command line to
see what errors are produced, then seeing if you can give it a helping
hand. Perhaps by symlinking from the codec directory to one or two
other places players look by default. Here's three locations that I
know about:
/usr/lib/codecs/
/usr/local/lib/codecs/
/usr/local/lib/win32/
Seeing as I've got mine in /usr/local/lib/codecs/, something like the
following might do the trick for mplayer (it does for me), and for other
programs that look for codecs in one or more of those places:
# remove *my* empty directory, then replace with link to one with codecs
rmdir /usr/lib/codecs
ln -s /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/lib/codecs
# remove *my* empty directory, then replace with link to one with codecs
rmdir /usr/local/lib/win32
ln -s /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/local/lib/win32
As I recall, I installed my extra codecs from the mplayer codec tarball
from the mplayer website, according to their instructions. Mine weren't
installed from an RPM.
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