[LAU] Playing a wav file from stdin in JACK?

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Sat Nov 17 03:50:07 EST 2007


Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> david wrote:
> 
>> How about basically wvunpack | lame | mplayer out to JACK?
> 
> Wavpack is a lossless codec. Going from a lossless file format to
> a lossy format just so that mplayer can handle it seems like it
> rather defeats the purpose of storing it as lossless to begin with.

I agree, but the OP was looking for a way to turn a WAV into a format 
mplayer could play - so I figured MP3 or OGG would be safe bets. Does 
mplayer do FLAC?

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