Re: trouble playing WMA

["Russell L. Harris" <rlharris@oplink.net>]

* Zach <netrek@gmail.com> [070612 02:28]:
> On 6/12/07, "Miguel J. Jiménez" <MiguelJose.Jimenez@isotrol.com> wrote:
> >
> >You will need windows codecs to play that... mplayer is a good option to
> >play them...
> 
> Ok I found mplayer package in Debian testing but where do I get the codecs?

Add to /etc/apt/sources.list the line:

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main

If you need to capture streaming audio in wav format, the key is to
use "pcm" as the "-ao" option to mplayer; see the excellent article at:

http://grimthing.com/archives/2004/05/20/recording-streaming-audio-with-mplayer/