Linux and WMA

[~*McoreD*~]

Linux is FREE and Open Source.
Even though WMA is not open source it is only format (next to OGG) which supports by a FREE jukebox that has got many features => Windows Media Player 9. WMA can be used FREE as well without its DRM.

I tried XMMS in Linux Mandrake 9.0 to play WMA, but still no luck
Does anybody no an app for Linux that could do the job?
Thanks in advance...

[craftyc]

Quote:

Originally posted by McoreD@Dec 1 2002, 08:43 AM
Linux is FREE and Open Source.
Even though WMA is not open source it is only format (next to OGG) which supports by a FREE jukebox that has got many features => Windows Media Player 9. WMA can be used FREE as well without its DRM.

I tried XMMS in Linux Mandrake 9.0 to play WMA, but still no luck
Does anybody no an app for Linux that could do the job?
Thanks in advance...

As far as I know there isn't any. Sorry mate.

You'll just have to convert to OGG or MP3 format.

[~*McoreD*~]

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

[craftyc]

I'm no RPM guru and I haven't used that package management system in a long time, but I think all you have to type is rpm -Ivh <package name> (Again the wonderful <TAB> button can autocomplete the file name).

Hope this helps.

[~*McoreD*~]

[root@localhost root]# cd..
[root@localhost /]# /home/manila
bash: /home/manila: is a directory
[root@localhost /]# cd /home/manila
[root@localhost manila]# cd Documents/Appz/mplayer
[root@localhost mplayer]# dir
mencoder-0.90pre10-1.i686.rpm mplayer-gui-0.90pre10-1.i686.rpm
mplayer-common-0.90pre10-1.i686.rpm
[root@localhost mplayer]# rpm -Ivh mencoder-0.90pre10-1.i686.rpm
-Ivh: unknown option
[root@localhost mplayer]# rpm -ivh mencoder-0.90pre10-1.i686.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
mplayer = 0.90pre10 is needed by mencoder-0.90pre10-1
libmp3lame.so.0 is needed by mencoder-0.90pre10-1
libpng.so.2 is needed by mencoder-0.90pre10-1
[root@localhost mplayer]# rpm -ivh mplayer-common-0.90pre10-1.i686.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:mplayer-common ########################################### [100%]
[root@localhost mplayer]# rpm -ivh mencoder-0.90pre10-1.i686.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
mplayer = 0.90pre10 is needed by mencoder-0.90pre10-1
libmp3lame.so.0 is needed by mencoder-0.90pre10-1
libpng.so.2 is needed by mencoder-0.90pre10-1
[root@localhost mplayer]# rpm -ivh mplayer-gui-0.90pre10-1.i686.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
mplayer-skin is needed by mplayer-gui-0.90pre10-1
libpng.so.2 is needed by mplayer-gui-0.90pre10-1
[root@localhost mplayer]#

Where did I go wrong

[craftyc]

I think you forgot to grab the file mplayer-0.90pre10-1.i686.rpm. Also try installing LAME and libpng (from the Mandrake CD's. Go to Control Center --> Software Management (or something like that) then search for the packages).

After that I think it should work.

[~*McoreD*~]

Yeah for sure CraftyC, I have forgot the file mplayer-0.90pre10-1.i686.rpm and have used mencoder-0.90pre10-1.i386.rpm instead. Oops

(For everyone's benefit
The proper sequence to install MPlayer is as follows:
(Note: these files are common to every processor. To find packages which are optimized for the particular processor (in my case - PII), go to the page http://mirrors.sctpc.com/dominik/linux/pkgs/mplayer and scroll down to have a look.)

Download:
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
http://mirrors.sctpc.com/dominik/lin...0-1.noarch.rpm
http://mirrors.sctpc.com/dominik/lin...e10-1.i386.rpm (optional)

Install them like this:
rpm -ivh mplayer-common-<version>.i386.rpm mplayer-<version>.i386.rpm mplayer-font-iso1-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh mplayer-0.90pre10-1.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh mplayer-gui-0.90pre10-1.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh mencoder-0.90pre10-1.i386.rpm (optional)

*TESTING*


I tried installing but an error came like this:

[root@localhost mplayer]# rpm -ivh mplayer-common-0.90pre10-1.i686.rpm mplayer-0.90pre10-1.i686.rpm mplayer-font-iso1-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
libpng.so.2 is needed by mplayer-0.90pre10-1
[root@localhost mplayer]#

But I have libpng.so.3 installed in /usr/lib/
And I am running Mandrake Linux 9.0

[craftyc]

Try this: -
"ln -s /usr/lib/libpng.so.3 /usr/lib/libpng.so.2"

It should work now.

[~*McoreD*~]

Quote:

Originally posted by craftyc@Dec 7 2002, 05:09 AM
Try this: -
"ln -s /usr/lib/libpng.so.3 /usr/lib/libpng.so.2"

It should work now.

[root@localhost root]# ln -s /usr/lib/libpng.so.3 /usr/lib/libpng.so.2
ln: `/usr/lib/libpng.so.2': File exists
[root@localhost root]# cd appz/mplayer
[root@localhost mplayer]# rpm -ivh mplayer-common-0.90pre10-1.i686.rpm mplayer-0.90pre10-1.i686.rpm mplayer-font-iso1-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
libpng.so.2 is needed by mplayer-0.90pre10-1
[root@localhost mplayer]#

I feel like to give up see the bold colored text. It bloody says libpng.so.2 already exists and f***ing says libpng.so.2 is needed by mplayer-0.90pre10

BTW, I installed Musicmatch Jukebox for Linux with no worries. It was a SH file. And it was just like a Setup.exe in Windows. That's kinda thing I love to be in Linux. So that home users could install and run progs under Linux with less pain.

IMPORTANT: I really need this MPlayer working

[craftyc]

According to your previous post mplayer-common is already installed. To install the mplayer package you could try adding the --nodeps switch. This can be dodgy sometimes, so be careful. The rest should install fine.

If you want a graphical front-end to rpm, you could try kpackage.

Hope this helps.