OT: Need help with mplayer

[Mark Phillips]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Jason Holtzapple <ml at bitflip.net> wrote:

> On 02/27/2011 05:30 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> > I am trying to convert a real player audio file to mp3 for my daughter's
> > school project. From what I have read, I need to use mplayer to convert
> > to .wav and then lame to convert to mp3. I tried the following:
> >
> > mplayer -vo null -vc null -ao pcm:waveheader The_Zero_Hour_08_14_44.rm
> >
> > on a 3.4 MB input file and all I get out is a 44 B .wav file.
>
> Is mplayer able to play the realaudio file through your speakers with just
> $ mplayer The_Zero_Hour_08_14_44.rm
>

I thought it was, but not anymore...I installed the w64codecs for debian,
and still no sound.

>
> If so, I'm not sure what's wrong as your command line looks ok. If not,
> you might be missing the realaudio codecs. On ubuntu, you can install
> w32codecs (32bit) or w64codecs (64bit) for realaudio support from the
> medibuntu repositories. I'm not sure about other distros.
>
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