[MPlayer-users] Walmart music download service & MPlayer

[R G Cottrell]

D Richard Felker III wrote:

>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 04:14:45AM +1000, R G Cottrell wrote:
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>>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>>Has anybody had success using MPlayer to play .wma files downloaded from 
>>Walmart's music download service?  (And not just the test file that you 
>>can download for free.)
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>>If so, how did you do it?
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>>I guess I'm running foul of the DRM in the paid-for files.  If I force 
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>Yes, that would be my guess too. Next time don't buy DRM'd files. 
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Okay, tell me how I can buy non-DRM'd files (and run them) from my Linux 
box.

>I
>have a hard time having sympathy in a situation like this...
>
>Rich
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Well, that's one attitude you can take.  Another is that a legal means 
of downloading
music files is of value to Linux users, and MPlayer _claims_ to be able 
to play files
intended for Windows Media Player 9, which Walmart supports.

Another thing I noticed - when trying to play a .wma file I get the lines:

==========================================================================
Requested audio codec family [ffwmav2] (afm=ffmpeg) not available.
Enable it at compilation.
Opening audio decoder: [dmo] Win32/DMO decoders

I checked ./configure --help and found no reference to ffwmav2, afm, or 
ffmpeg.
I guess that the "enable it at compilation" advice is optional, since it 
does find a
Win32 codec and try to use it.  Perhaps the trouble is that the codec it 
tries to use
is the wmadmod.dll when it should be using the wma9dmod.dll.


Regards, Ross.