play wma files ?

Emulos · December 27, 2009, 4:01pm

Hi,

i installed all codecs i could find (incl. w32all) but i can’t play wma files using Amarok or Smplayer. What am i supposed to do ?

thanks

oldcpu · December 27, 2009, 4:04pm

Try playing them with xine or vlc. I find those will play a .wma on a 32-bit PC.

I also found MPlayer on a 32-bit PC would not play .wma files, but when I reported this to the Packman packagers, they noted to me they could not reproduce the problem.

caf4926 · December 27, 2009, 5:46pm

I have no problem with .wma apart from the fact they are rubbish
But they play OK
YMMV

oldcpu · December 27, 2009, 6:48pm

I can play them too on my 64-bit PCs. But not on 32-bit with MPlayer (only with vlc and xine). I do not know the reason why, but I suspect if I did make a mistake (on the 32-bit) its a systemic mistake as it has effected 3 PCs and 4 partitions.

caf4926 · December 27, 2009, 7:15pm

OK.
I actually only ever use amarok.
But I just fetched a .wma from my server to try on my 32 bit laptop
It plays in mplayer and everything else I have installed.

oldcpu · December 27, 2009, 7:40pm

OK, thanks for checking that. It appears Packman packagers finally fixed the problem with the 32-bit MPlayer.

I note that

MPlayer-1.0rc2-r30099-1.pm.1.1.i586 can play .wma
MPlayer-1.0rc2-r29796-2.pm.3.3.i586 can NOT play .wma and only gives static

I’ll post to the Packman Packagers mailing list and note they “finally” fixed it.