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Playing WMA Music Files with MPlayer

This section provides a tutorial on how to play a WMA music file with MPlayer.

The next test is to use MPlayer to play a WMA music file:

C:\temp>\local\mplayer\mplayer sample.wma
MPlayer 1.0rc1-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU
    T7200  @ 2.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf doesn't look like a bitmap font
   description, ignoring.
Cannot load bitmap font: c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf

Playing sample.wma
ASF file format detected.
Clip info:
 name: Track 1
=====================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16002->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
=====================================================================
AO: [dsound] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...

MPlayer prints detailed information about the WMA file, and plays the content nicely.

Sections in This Chapter

Downloading and Installing MPlayer

Playing DVD VOB Files with MPlayer

Playing VCD DAT Files with MPlayer

Playing MPEG Video Files with MPlayer

Playing MP3 Music Files with MPlayer

Playing WAV Music Files with MPlayer

Playing WMA Music Files with MPlayer

Dr. Herong Yang, updated in 2007
Playing WMA Music Files with MPlayer