[MPlayer-users] DRM .wma

Sun Apr 2 15:40:19 CEST 2006

On Sunday, 02 April 2006 at 13:25, David Corbin wrote:
> I have an audio .wma file that allegedly has DRM in it.  I'd like to play it 
> on my gentoo linux box.  Well, what I'd really like is to convert it to 
> an .mp3 file, but I figure playing it is the first step. I installed mplayer 
> (using +win32codecs.
> 
> When I try to play the file, the audio is not intelligable  Should mplayer be 
> able to handle it?  Is it easy to verify which codec it should need?

No. MPlayer doesn't handle DRM'd files and there are currently no plans to even
try supporting them.

R.

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