[MPlayer-users] .wma audio fails to play

[Raphael Clifford]

I have downloaded a free test file from hotvision.de and I can't play it 
even though it works in Windows.  I can play many different using my 
mplayer setup so there appears to be a problem with this format of file.

Here are the details.

MPlayer 0.90-CVS-RPM-030530-18:03-3.1 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see 
DOCS)

running on redhat 7.3.  I have installed the full set of windows codecs 
including the windows media 9 codecs from the rpms.

The file came as Average_Boy.wmd.  This is in fact a zip file while I 
unzipped to produce
 
6190 May 14 18:51 Average_Boy.asx
48286 May 14 18:51 Average_Boy.wmz
3623742 May 14 18:51 Mercia_Clayton-You_Said.wma


I attempted play the .wma  file and it failed. Here is the output of 
mplayer -v Mercia_Clayton-You_Said.wma

"
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /usr/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/share/locale


MPlayer 0.90-CVS-RPM-030530-18:03-3.1 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see 
DOCS)

CPU: Intel Celeron Covington/Pentium II Deschutes,Tonga/Pentium II Xeon 
(Family: 6, Stepping: 2)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled with Runtime CPU Detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with 
--disable-runtime-cpudetection
Reading config file /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
Reading config file /home/clifford/.mplayer/config
Reading /home/clifford/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Reading 
/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 49 audio & 136 video codecs
CommandLine: '-v' 'Mercia_Clayton-You_Said.wma'
get_path('font/font.desc') -> '/home/clifford/.mplayer/font/font.desc'
font: can't open file: /home/clifford/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
init_freetype
Using MMX Optimized OnScreenDisplay
Using usleep() timing
get_path('input.conf') -> '/home/clifford/.mplayer/input.conf'
Parsing input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf
Input config file /etc/mplayer/input.conf parsed : 52 binds
get_path('Mercia_Clayton-You_Said.wma.conf') -> 
'/home/clifford/.mplayer/Mercia_Clayton-You_Said.wma.conf'

Playing Mercia_Clayton-You_Said.wma
Not an URL!
File size is 3623742 bytes
CACHE_PRE_INIT: 0 [0] 0  pre:0  eof:0 
^MCache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)    ^MCache fill: 19.73% (1654784 
bytes)    Checking for YUV4MPEG2
DEMUXER: freeing demuxer at 0x841e8f8 
ASF file format detected.
ASF: packets: 606  flags: 2  max_packet_size: 5974  min_packet_size: 
5974  max_bitrate: 128016  preroll: 1486
stream type: guid_audio_stream
stream concealment: guid_audio_conceal_interleave
type: 28 bytes,  stream: 8 bytes  ID: 32769
unk1: 0  unk2: 0
FILEPOS=0xD4
==> Found audio stream: 1
======= WAVE Format =======
Format Tag: 353 (0x161)
Channels: 2
Samplerate: 44100
avg byte/sec: 16002
Block align: 5945
bits/sample: 16
cbSize: 10
Unknown extra header dump: [0] [90] [0] [0] [f] [0] [39] [17] [0] [0]
ASF: audio scrambling: 1 x 1 x 5945

 Title: You Said
 Author: Mercia Clayton
 Copyright: (P) & (C) 2003 Plan X Music Ltd
 Comment: You Said

Found movie at 0xDAA - 0x374B3E
ASF: 1 audio and 0 video streams found
ASF: Searching for audio stream (id:-1).
Invalid plen type! assuming plen=0
Auto-selected ASF audio ID = 1
Invalid plen type! assuming plen=0
Clip info:
 name: You Said
 author: Mercia Clayton
 copyright: (P) & (C) 2003 Plan X Music Ltd
 comments: You Said
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [dmo] Win32/DMO decoders
======= WAVE Format =======
Format Tag: 353 (0x161)
Channels: 2
Samplerate: 44100
avg byte/sec: 16002
Block align: 5945
bits/sample: 16
cbSize: 10
Unknown extra header dump: [0] [90] [0] [0] [f] [0] [39] [17] [0] [0]
======= WAVE Format =======
Format Tag: 1 (0x1)
Channels: 2
Samplerate: 44100
avg byte/sec: 176400
Block align: 4
bits/sample: 16
cbSize: 0
External func OLEAUT32.dll:7
External func OLEAUT32.dll:8
GetOutput r=0x0   size:16384  align:1
StreamCount r=0x0  1  1
INFO: Win32/DMO audio codec init OK!
dec_audio: Allocating 23780 bytes for input buffer
dec_audio: Allocating 65536 + 65536 = 131072 bytes for output buffer
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x10), ratio: 16002->176400 (128.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [wmadmo] afm:dmo (Windows Media Audio DMO)
==========================================================================
Checking audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit -> 44100Hz/2ch/16bit...
[libaf] Adding filter dummy
[dummy] Was reinitialized, rate=44100Hz, nch = 2, format = 0x00000001 
and bps = 2
AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 44100 hz, little endian signed int
AF_pre: 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
ao2: 44100 Hz  2 chans  Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)
audio_setup: using '/dev/dsp' dsp device
audio_setup: sample format: Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (requested: 
Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian))
audio_setup: using 2 channels (requested: 2)
audio_setup: using 44100 Hz samplerate (requested: 44100)
audio_setup: frags:  16/16  (4096 bytes/frag)  free:  65536
AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) (2 bps)
AO: Description: OSS/ioctl audio output
AO: Author: A'rpi
Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/16bit -> 44100Hz/2ch/16bit...
[dummy] Was reinitialized, rate=44100Hz, nch = 2, format = 0x00000001 
and bps = 2
[dummy] Was reinitialized, rate=44100Hz, nch = 2, format = 0x00000001 
and bps = 2
Video: no video
Freeing 0 unused video chunks
Starting playback...
Invalid plen type! assuming plen=0
Invalid plen type! assuming plen=0
Invalid plen type! assuming plen=0
A:  -0.0  0.0% 42%   ^MInvalid plen type! assuming plen=0
Invalid plen type! assuming plen=0
Invalid plen type! assuming plen=0
Invalid plen type! assuming plen=0
A:  -0.0  0.0% 42%   ^MInvalid plen type! assuming plen=0
Invalid plen type! assuming plen=0
Invalid plen type! assuming plen=0
Invalid plen type! assuming plen=0
A:  -0.0  0.0% 42%   ^MInvalid plen type! assuming plen=0
Invalid plen type! assuming plen=0
Invalid plen type! assuming plen=0
Invalid plen type! assuming plen=0
A:  -0.0  0.0% 41%   ^MInvalid plen type! assuming plen=0
Invalid plen type! assuming plen=0
Invalid plen type! assuming plen=0
Invalid plen type! assuming plen=0
Invalid plen type! assuming plen=0
Invalid plen type! assuming plen=0
Invalid plen type! assuming plen=0
Invalid plen type! assuming plen=0
Invalid plen type! assuming plen=0
Invalid plen type! assuming plen=0
"

etc.


I assume this is a windows media audio 9 file.   We also tried  mplayer 
0.90-3.2.2 with the same result.

Cheers,
Raphael