31 Jul
2007
31 Jul
'07
10:24 p.m.
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 16:26 -0700, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
On 31 July 2007 at 18:43, Paul Davis
<paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
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
> >
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.