Re: *.wma

[DvB <imasu@earthlink.net>]

Johannes Zarl <johannes.zarl@ahl.uni-linz.ac.at> writes:

> > ========================================================================
> >== 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.
> 


Ah. Therein lay my problem. Mplayer really isn't very good at buffering
wma streams, though. Closing windows or changing desktops while one is
playing makes the sound stop for a second or two (of course, I'm running
it on a PII-233, but still...)

Anyway, thanks for the suggestion.