2 Mar
2011
2 Mar
'11
12:35 a.m.
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 07:53:12AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:33:59PM -1000, Joel Roth
wrote:
What I usually do in such cases is
boot up a live cd like knoppix and
run a few tests (e.g badblocks) to determine whether there is a real
problem or only windows insanity.
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.
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).
What does mplayer say when failing?
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?
Possibly.
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.
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Any suggestions?
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