Re: *.wma

[Mark <markdrago@mail.com>]

DvB wrote:

> "Sergey A. Ovchar" <ovserg@kah.hs.ukrtel.net> writes:
>
>  
>
> > Hi.
> > Can anyone help me about encoding from subject format to cdr, mp3 or wav for recording it to the CD's.
> >
> > And how can I play the *.wma's using XMMS ?
> >
> >    
>
> .wma stands for "Windows Media Audio" which is a proprietary format
> developed by Microsoft and, hence, cannot be played or decoded on
> Linux. At least I think they can't be played, uless maybe realplayer has
> this capability (which I don't think it does).
>
> You might try searching the internet for "xmms windwos media codec" or
> somesuch, but I doubt you'll be very successful.
Any self respecting slashdot reader will remember this article [1] which 
announced ffmpeg's [2] groundbreaking wma decoder.  I'm not sure if any 
work has gone into integrating this into xmms, but atleast you know it 
exists.

[1] - http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/28/1331251&mode=thread
[2] - http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/

--Mark