Re: *.wma

[Johannes Zarl <johannes.zarl@ahl.uni-linz.ac.at>]

> .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).

I encountered some .wma's just a few days ago and MPlayer was able to play 
them. However, if one wants to play them using xmms, something like 
``mplayer -ao pcm foo.wma -aofile - | oggenc >foo.ogg'' should work, if 
there is no better solution.

Johannes

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