[LAU] Convert from WMA to ... ?

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Tue Jul 31 20:23:52 EDT 2007


On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 16:26 -0700, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
> On 31 July 2007 at 18:43, Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
> 
> > > > > 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.
> 
> True.  Writing to WAV first can't help that tho.  Where WMA can be 
> played, then there's no need to convert. 

right. my point is that your audio interface handles PCM, not compressed
data. so convert it to WAV (PCM data) and stop right there. do not
attempt to go beyond WAV to some other compressed format.

--p





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