[MPlayer-users] Playing 8-bit raw Audio with mplayer

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 02:15:25AM -0700, RC wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:04:35 -0500
> Martin McCormick <martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote:
> 
> > 	A read of the man page says that u8 is one of the
> > accepted formats so it looks like
> > mplayer -quiet -format u8 streamfile
> > should work but no luck.
> 
> No it shouldn't.  With any raw audio format, you have to tell the player
> details of the format..  Without a header, there's no way to know.
> 
> And -format does the opposite of what you seem to think it does...

And to be more helpful, read up on -rawaudio in the man page.