On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Joel Roth <joelz@xxxxxxxxx> 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. ntfsclone can replicate a windows (boot) partition from linux You may need to adjust the partition flags with fdisk. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1694828 [Pardon if this is an irrelevant answer -- not really read the whole thread] > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
