Re: converting windows media sound to wav?

the -ao switch tells it what audio device to output to, just as -vo
tells it what video device to output to. PCM means "pulse code
modulation" which i guess means wav file.
I honestly don't know why it works, I found it years ago when I had to
convert all my wma's when I migrated from the violation known as
"Windows Me!"

 I was just happy not to have to loopback from audio out to audio in
and have all that resultant loss.

On 11/11/06, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 23:47:55 -0800
> "Seth Wegner" <[email protected]> dijo:
>
> > Okay, I've tested this and it worked:
> >
> > mplayer -ao pcm file.wma
> >
> > This will produce "audiodump.wav" which I was able to import into Audacity.
>
> Yay!!!! It worked!!!!
>
> Now I'd like to learn why that worked and previous efforts did not. Actually, I could start with what "-ao pcm" does.
>
> A thousand thanks for getting my files working!
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