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[kuzma]

New to the forum and pymedia, but have been trying to encode WMAs in linux for a while now because my new phone doubles as an mp3 player, but actually only plays WMAs. I know WMA is terrible, and I prefer ogg, but I really want to get a solution for converting formats to wma until LG/verizon make a patch for my phone so it can play mp3s, and I have tried to play mp3s on it before. The phone is a vx8300, so buyers beware.

Anyway, I know that ffmpeg and mplayer/mencoder don't encode to wma, only decode from them, and so I hoped pyMedia could since the site said it encoded/decoded from a list of formats (which included wma).

well, I can't seem to get it to encode into wma and i was wondering if it can or if anyone knows of any software that can.
any help would be appreciated.
(not that is is useful in this case, but I am running:
Ubuntu Dapper Drake (6.06)
python 2.4
pyMedia 1.3.7
i built pyMedia, and when i built/installed it it found all of the drivers it looked for)

thanx!!!

[kuzma]

note:
using the recode_audio.py in the examples i get this:
kuzma@r2d2:~/programs/python/pyAudio$ python recode_audio.py ~/KeepingTheBlade.ogg CoAndCa-KeepingTheBlade.wma wma

Recoding /home/kuzma/KeepingTheBlade.ogg into CoAndCa-KeepingTheBlade.wma
Decoder params: {'index': 0, 'block_align': 0, 'type': 1, 'frame_rate_base': 1, 'height': 0, 'channels': 0, 'width': 0, 'length': -2077252342, 'sample_rate': 0, 'frame_rate': 25, 'bitrate': 0, 'id': 86022}
Encoder params: {'channels': 2, 'sample_rate': 44100, 'bitrate': 160000, 'id': 0}
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "recode_audio.py", line 82, in ?
recodeAudio( sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3] )
File "recode_audio.py", line 46, in recodeAudio
mx= muxer.Muxer( Type )
pymedia.muxer.MuxerError: No registered muxer for the 'wma' extension

I have tried this with the encoder as:
wma, WMA, wmav1, wmav2, WMAv1, WMAv2, wma1, wma2, WMA1, WMA2

once again, any info would be appreciated!

[jbors]

At this point pymedia uses ffmpeg to do its job so if wma encoding is not supported there, it won't work in pymedia also.