21 Jul
2007
21 Jul
'07
5:01 a.m.
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?
I used to do this with wma2wav
<http://mcmcc.bat.ru/xmms-wma/wma2wav>, but that won't build on
my Mandriva 2007.0 system. The last thing I built it on was
Mandrake 9.0.
Thanks....
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21 Jul
21 Jul
5:54 a.m.
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)
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6:01 a.m.
On 21 July 2007 at 9:54, Thorsten Wilms <t_w_(a)freenet.de> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 12:01:22AM -0700, Kevin
Cosgrove wrote:
That works great. Thanks!
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Kevin
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)
31 Jul
31 Jul
7:16 p.m.
On 21 July 2007 at 9:54, Thorsten Wilms <t_w_(a)freenet.de> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 12:01:22AM -0700, Kevin
Cosgrove wrote:
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.
Thanks....
--
Kevin
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) 
8:04 p.m.
On Tuesday 31 July 2007, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
On 21 July 2007 at 9:54, Thorsten Wilms
<t_w_(a)freenet.de> wrote:
can't mplayer write to stdout?
Flo
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On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 12:01:22AM -0700, Kevin
Cosgrove wrote:
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. 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)
8:21 p.m.
On 1 August 2007 at 0:03, Florian Schmidt <mista.tapas(a)gmx.net> wrote:
On Tuesday 31 July 2007, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
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
On 21 July 2007 at 9:54, Thorsten Wilms
<t_w_(a)freenet.de> wrote:
can't mplayer write to stdout? On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 12:01:22AM -0700, Kevin
Cosgrove wrote:
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. 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) 
3 Aug
3 Aug
8:37 a.m.
Kevin Cosgrove <kevinc(a)doink.com> wrote:
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....
You can also make a fifo, redirect mplayer's pcm output to it and encode on
the fly.
I do something like this:
FIFO_TMP="/tmp/mplayer-pcm-out.fifo"
mkfifo "${FIFO_TMP}"
oggenc -Q -o <outfile> "${FIFO_TMP}" &
mplayer -vc null -vo null -ao pcm:fast:file="${FIFO_TMP}" <infile>
31 Jul
31 Jul
8:43 p.m.
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 00:03 +0200, Florian Schmidt wrote:
On Tuesday 31 July 2007, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
> On 21 July 2007 at 9:54, Thorsten Wilms <t_w_(a)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?
even if it could, you don't want to trancode from one lossy,
perceptually-based compression technique to another. the result is
awful.
--p
9:26 p.m.
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. Where I don't have a WMA
player, then converting is better than no audio at all. Hmm, maybe
I should check out FLAC for this. Thanks....
--
Kevin
> > 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.
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. 
3 Aug
3 Aug
6:38 p.m.
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On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 06:43:14PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 00:03 +0200, Florian Schmidt
wrote:
And often necessary.
I was surprised to discover how difficult it is for ordinary people to install a Vorbis
CODEC, or anything, for that matter.
I have to transcode my ogg's all the time to mp3 format so that people can actually
listen to it.
- -ken
On Tuesday 31 July 2007, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
> On 21 July 2007 at 9:54, Thorsten Wilms <t_w_(a)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?
even if it could, you don't want to trancode from one lossy,
perceptually-based compression technique to another. the result is
awful.
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1 Aug
1 Aug
8:17 a.m.
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.
No, mencoder can currently only do .mp3:
#!/bin/sh
BR=128
mencoder -of rawaudio -o out.mp3 -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=$BR:aq=0 "$1"
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21 Jul
21 Jul
5:55 a.m.
Hi!
Use mplayer, that's what I usually do and it works fine:
mplayer -ao pcm:file=output.wav input.wma
Also works with other propriatary formats. The only thing you have to get is
the all-somedate.tar.bz2 package along with mplayer, it's on their site.
Hope that helps!
Kindest regards
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6:26 a.m.
Hallo,
Julien Claassen hat gesagt: // Julien Claassen wrote:
Use mplayer, that's what I usually do and it
works fine:
mplayer -ao pcm:file=output.wav input.wma
A little hint: You can use "fast" as an additional audio-out option in
"-ao pcm:fast:file=output.wav" as I wrote in my other reply. This will
dump faster than realtime, which is, well, faster.
Ciao
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6:19 a.m.
Hallo,
Kevin Cosgrove hat gesagt: // 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?
For example with mplayer. For dumping audio from video files use
something like:
$ mplayer -vo null -vc null -ao pcm:fast:file=OUTPUT.wav INPUT.wmv
If you don't have video data as in a wma, you can omit the "-v*"
options, but they won't hurt, for example if you put it in a shell
script for general use as attached. Convert further to your liking
with oggenc etc.
Ciao
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2:49 p.m.
The sox utility converts just about every audio format to any other
audio format. Pretty cool.
Russ
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?
I used to do this with wma2wav
<http://mcmcc.bat.ru/xmms-wma/wma2wav>, but that won't build on
my Mandriva 2007.0 system. The last thing I built it on was
Mandrake 9.0.
Thanks....
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3:02 p.m.
I'm surprised, but now that I look a the sox man page, you're right. If
you look at the sox man page, you'll see a VERY large number of formats
that are supported, but wma isn't one of them. hmpff...
I stand corrected.
Russ
Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
On 21 July 2007 at 9:55, Russ Button
<russ(a)button.com> wrote:
The sox utility converts just about every audio
format to any other
audio format. Pretty cool.
My sox says, "Do not understand format type: wma"
Thanks....
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