-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 06:43:14PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 00:03 +0200, Florian Schmidt wrote: > > On Tuesday 31 July 2007, Kevin Cosgrove wrote: > > > On 21 July 2007 at 9:54, Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 12:01:22AM -0700, Kevin Cosgrove wrote: > > > > > I have a WMA file, yes only one, that I can play with Amarok. > > > > > But, I want to convert it to OGG or WAV. How can I do that? > > > > > > > > If mplayer ca play it, this might work: > > > > mplayer -ao pcm input.wma -ao pcm:file=output.wav > > > > > > > > (at least it does for mp3) > > > > > > Is there anyway for mplayer to write OGG instead of WAV? > > even if it could, you don't want to trancode from one lossy, > perceptually-based compression technique to another. the result is > awful. > And often necessary. I was surprised to discover how difficult it is for ordinary people to install a Vorbis CODEC, or anything, for that matter. I have to transcode my ogg's all the time to mp3 format so that people can actually listen to it. - -ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGs5Gae8HF+6xeOIcRAiSeAJ9RIg9LXE6HDEW1YT0zBZk2y+Z6agCfSEpT 5xZeZeKubEdHf/oeH0pugsM= =IlzF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
