VLC - no sound for WMA files

supernicko · 2008-03-20 08:31:34

Hi all,

I've searched long and hard for a solution to my issue but I'm at a loss.

VLC will play the video from a wma file fine but won't play any sound.

Message from VLC is:

main error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `wmap'.
VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.

I've looked through all the packages for what might be required but I'm not sure. I'm on x86-64 so perhaps this is related.

Appreciate whatever guidance you can provide.

Thanks for your help,
Nick

chicha · 2008-03-20 09:38:06

Did you installed the codecs package : http://www.archlinux.org/packages/13071/ ?

supernicko · 2008-03-20 11:51:53

chicha wrote:

Did you installed the codecs package : http://www.archlinux.org/packages/13071/ ?

Yes but unfortunately no luck.

chicha · 2008-03-20 12:46:48

Ok, this is bad news because VLC is known to read anything !

Here are a few points to check :

- Does your wma contains any DRM ? If you got it from a music salling web site (Amazon, Virgin or other), or somebody's MP3 player, it might contains a DRM and you are stuck. In such a case you will have to look at google or forums to see how to crack the DRM on Linux. It might be ilegal in your country and I do not approve such a thing. At your own risks ...

- Do you know if your wma plays well on Windows with Windows Media Player for instance ?
- Do you know if your wma plays well on an other linux platform (other Arch, Ubuntu, ...) ? If so good news, we will find the solution

- Try to read it with mplayer who is also known to read anything ...

- As a last solution, if you manage to put your wma somewhere on the net I can try it on my Arch install where I have succeeded in reading anything for the moment, but a DRMised wma ...

supernicko · 2008-03-21 22:58:44

Mplayer tells me that it can't find the codec. I think this might be to do with wm9 codecs being no good with 64 bit. Which leaves me in a predicament.

Edit:
Should have added that I'll try it on Windows today but it's a newly downloaded file so I haven't tried it on other platforms. I've also downloaded a non-DRM video from the Microsoft site (a trailer) and I'm having the same issues.

Link here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/ … _8Mbps.wmv

Last edited by supernicko (2008-03-21 23:01:22)

koch · 2008-03-21 23:37:03

firefox/mplayer-plugin works but is not very loud.
save link as... and opened it with sm-player works, also not very loud.

both take quite long...but it works.

edit: i forgot i turned down volume with keytouch, sorry. it workes normal for me.

Last edited by koch (2008-03-21 23:51:58)

skottish · 2008-03-21 23:52:42

supernicko wrote:

Mplayer tells me that it can't find the codec. I think this might be to do with wm9 codecs being no good with 64 bit. Which leaves me in a predicament.

That's the conclusion reached here:

http://www.sabayonlinux.org/forum/viewt … 59&t=10319

orasis · 2008-03-22 14:07:17

There are still some WMA/WMV formats that are unsupported, period, on VLC. - You may have better luck on Mplayer... but keep in mind that closed formats are just that closed, it takes a while for them to be ported to free systems.

Arch Linux

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VLC - no sound for WMA files

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