[LAU] Convert from WMA to ... ?

[Kevin Cosgrove]

On 1 August 2007 at 0:03, Florian Schmidt <mista.tapas at gmx.net> wrote:

> On Tuesday 31 July 2007, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
> > On 21 July 2007 at 9:54, Thorsten Wilms <t_w_ at freenet.de> 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?  I can
> > convert from WAV to OGG with oggenc, but it'd be nice not to have to
> > spend the disk space intermediately.
> 
> can't mplayer write to stdout?

Yes, and oggenc's "--help" claims that it can read from stdin, but this:

mplayer -ao pcm input.wma -ao pcm:fast | oggenc --raw - --output=output.ogg

doesn't work.  The resulting OGG file is nothing but header.  oggenc 
won't allow stdin unless I use --raw.  That requires "headerless" WAV.
It seems the default for mplayer is "waveheader" for pcm, and I can't 
figure out how to change that.  My piped command might work, if I 
could turn off the header.  I've also played with SoX, but haven't 
managed to get that to work yet either.

Thanks.... 

--
Kevin