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Old 5th Dec 02, 01:58 PM
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WMA codec by M$, is hacked and used as DivX Audio in creation of DVDs. The main reason is its great compressibility such as CD Quality in 64kbps

I found an app called MPlayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/info.html) which could play WMA9 /WMV9 files. Again it is in RPM file where I still struggle to install

The general files are :
http://mirrors.sctpc.com/dominik/lin...e10-1.i386.rpm
http://mirrors.sctpc.com/dominik/lin...e10-1.i386.rpm
http://mirrors.sctpc.com/dominik/lin...e10-1.i386.rpm

But for my Pentium II these are optimized as:
http://mirrors.sctpc.com/dominik/lin...e10-1.i686.rpm
http://mirrors.sctpc.com/dominik/lin...e10-1.i686.rpm
http://mirrors.sctpc.com/dominik/lin...e10-1.i686.rpm

So much embarresed not knowing how to install them though
Like in Windows setup.exe files, I simply double clicked them in root account, but nothing seems to be happening
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