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jonfr
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 Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 11:55 pm Post subject: How to play wma files ? |
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| What is the best way for me to play wma files ? All I get from rhythmbox is that it is missing some GStream plugin to play wma files. But I cannot find that plugin when I looked for it. |
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jburns
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| Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 12:08 am Post subject: |
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| Try www-plugins/gecko-mediaplayer |
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| Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 11:29 am Post subject: |
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| Anything that uses FFmpeg should handle it I think. Audacious with the ffaudio input plugin should do the trick if you want a decent GTK+ player. If you just want to play it on the command-line, ffplay (comes with FFmpeg) or MPlayer should do it. I haven't got any WMA files at hand so I might be completely wrong, of course, but if anything can do it, FFmpeg can. |
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aCOSwt
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| Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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| m0p wrote: | | Anything that uses FFmpeg should handle it I think. |
+1
So, if you want to stick to rhythmbox and as rhythmbox depends on gstreamer, I think that you can sort this out by just installing media-plugins/gst-plugins-ffmpeg |
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ShadowHawkBV
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media-video/vlc is an even simpler way forward. I'm sure there is something it won't play out of the box, I just haven't run across it yet.
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jonfr
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| m0p wrote: | | Anything that uses FFmpeg should handle it I think. Audacious with the ffaudio input plugin should do the trick if you want a decent GTK+ player. If you just want to play it on the command-line, ffplay (comes with FFmpeg) or MPlayer should do it. I haven't got any WMA files at hand so I might be completely wrong, of course, but if anything can do it, FFmpeg can. |
I have all this installed. Yet Rhythmbox complains that it cannot play this file type. |
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