[MPlayer-users] easy generating unplayable wma files

Arpi arpi at thot.banki.hu
Sat Jan 11 21:39:29 CET 2003


Hi,

> I posted some messages before regarding wma file that plays wrong with
> different decoders, including ffwma2 and divxa32.acm. My friend just
> said that he could generate such files easily. You just need to run
> Virtualdub in windows, open any file with wma audio and do
> file->save audio as wav (using direct stream copy mode) - and voila.
> Resulting file will be unplayable with mplayer.

resulting file will be a .wav and not a .wma, but with compressed content.
anyway it may be still playable (assuming that vdub correctly copies the
audio headers and extensions to the wav file, just like the mp3-in-wav case)

maybe upload sample file(s)


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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