What about wma (was Re: wmv)

[Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com>]

giglio robbo' d'acciaio wrote:
> Bob King <g3ase@waitrose.com> writes:
>
>   
> > Please how do I play wmv files on ubuntu?
> >     
>
> mplayer
>   
What about .wma files?

I have tried Xine and MPlayer and I do have the w32codecs installed.  
Both players say that they are playing the file, but I get no audio 
output.  Xine just shows a screen with a rapidly changing squiggly line 
and the output of mplayer is:

MPlayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP-M Processor 2800+ (Family: 15, Model: 8, 
Stepping: 2)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote 
control.

Playing baroqueloop90z.wma.
ASF file format detected.
Clip info:
name: Baroque Loop
author: Lothar Michael Froehlich
copyright: 2000
comments: Classic - Visit www. soundemotion.com
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 32.0 kbit/4.54% (ratio: 4003->88200)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
==========================================================================
AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:  28.4 (28.4) of 27.0 (27.0)  0.8%

Exiting... (End of file)



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Marc Shapiro
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