On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:33:59PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > A friend has an old laptop with Windows XP that is > misbehaving. > > He has a lot of music and playlists in the above formats. > Does Linux have a player that is compatible with these? > Wine is also possible, especially if the apps can be > run off an existing Windows partition. > > I'm considering installing a Linux distribution for him. > The window manager needs to be lightweight enough to run on > a Pentium M, with 500MB memory. He'd like to be able to > view videos as well. DRM rears it's ugly head! One reason for the misbehavior may be that the hard drive has a lot of errors, including some bad sectors. I backed up the entire user directory... not a single error. Then I copied a couple WMA albums to a NTFS drive. These are albums he ripped using Windows Media Player. Try as I might, I couldn't get them to play under Linux. As Julien suggested, I tried downloading codecs from the mplayer site, deliberately specifying which codecs to use, and playing with ffplay (ffmpeg). So I rebooted *my* laptop into the obligatory Win7 partition, set up the media player (choosing don't get rights from the Internet) and then double-clicked the file. Surprise. Win7 says "You don't have rights to play this!" Could some DRM limitations explain why I can't play these files under Linux? Does someone know ways people work with or around this? The guy is a drummer, and he and his wife are destitute. We don't have much of a budget for repairs. Thanks. > Any suggestions? > > Regards > > -- > Joel Roth > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
