Re: *.wma

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

> ========================================================================
>== Requested audio codec family [divx] (afm=acm) not available (enable it
> at compilation!) *** Try to upgrade /home/foo/.mplayer/codecs.conf from
> etc/codecs.conf *** If it still does not work, read DOCS/codecs.html!
> Can't find codec for audio format 0x161!
> ========================================================================
>==
>
> when I try to play wma files from the ubl.com downloads section.
>
> I compiled and installed 0.90-pre9-0 using the debian/rules tarball
> available on the mplayer website. I find it hard to believe that divx
> wouldn't be enabled by default :-\

Are you sure, you have libavcodec0 and w32codecs installed? The 
appropriate codec is in either of them. There is no dependency from 
mplayer to it, so it isn't installed by default.

greeetings,
  Johannes

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