On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 07:53:12AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > 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. What I usually do in such cases is boot up a live cd like knoppix and run a few tests (e.g badblocks) to determine whether there is a real problem or only windows insanity. > > 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). What does mplayer say when failing? > > 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? Possibly. > > 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 > -- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
