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justinsmithies

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Registered: 2004-09-01

Posts: 62

WMA problems with mplayer

Help i have just downloaded my first audio track for putting on cd and i paid for it ............
When i use mplayer as instructed so i can convert it to mp3 all i get is a 44b file no audio
The original is 5.7 Mb and plays fine on my wifes windows pc .. Damn i hated saying that

I have codecs installed and mpayer the latest i update daily.

So i type this and this is all i see. ......

[linux@justin cd]# mplayer Iris.wma
MPlayer 1.0pre8-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU:               Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz (Family: 15, Model: 1, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.

93 audio & 211 video codecs

Playing Iris.wma.
ASF file format detected.
Clip info:
name: Iris
author: Ronan Keating
copyright: (P) 2006 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/13.61% (ratio: 24002->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:  -0.0 (unknown) of 248.0 (04:08.0) ??,?%

Exiting... (End of file)
[linux@justin cd]#

I have tried several python and bash scripts but they all produce the same 44b with no audio files...
And i know its an issue with mplayer somehow.....

Oh and yes the permissions are fine and i even tried as root ...

HELP PLEASE ...
I DONT WANT TO HAVE TO USE WINDOWS TO LISTEN TO THEM (

skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: WMA problems with mplayer

This is hardly the most elegant solution, but do this from the command line:

ffmpeg -i {your song}.wma {your song}.mp3