[Klug-general] Wav Files

[Alan Buchel]

cli mplayer rocks (*deb install with mplayer-nogui), but you sometimes
have to install gstreamer baddies, certainly for copyright formats like mp3.

vlc has some of those codecs included, cvlc is the CLI version.

On 16/12/11 10:14, Peter Childs wrote:
> I'm trying to play a wav file under Linux....
>
> Its
>
> $> file default.wav
> default.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, mono 8000 Hz
>
> but nothing will play it, sox just says
>
> $> sox default.wav  new.wav
> sox FAIL formats: can't open input file `default.wav': Unknown WAV
> file encoding (type 86)
>
> any ideas?
>
> I know the file is ok I've heard it under windows.....
>
> Peter.
>
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