[ltp] Playing overdrive audio books

[Ted]

Thanks a lot Richard, let me try it out

Highly appreciate your detailed info.

-tg-

On Jan 30, 2008 10:24 AM, Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
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>
> Ted wrote:
> > Thanks Richard
> >
> > This is awesome information for me to start.
> >
> > It is DRM, so could you point me to any wiki/how tos to do the "rec"
> > program from Windows media player?
> >
> > Appreciate it so much
> >
> > -tg-
>
>
> Dear Ted,
>
> Glad that's useful. If it's DRM, you probably have to use WMP/wine.
> (though do google to see if anyone has written a DRM-removing utility
> such as fairuse4wm). The hard part is getting it to play through the
> speakers using WMP - hopefully it will work in wine; if not, you might
> have to virtualise windowsin qemu.
>
> After that, you know that the unencrypted stream is going to the mixer
> in Linux. So you should just be able to set the capture device to be the
> main output (some sort of loopback), or even make wine output directly
> to file.
>
> The rec program is quite useful, but audacity may be easier for you.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>
>
> >
> > On Jan 30, 2008 8:34 AM, Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> >> Ted wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm wondering if any one has got overdrive audio books playing on linux.
> >>> Do I have to install windows media player on wine to play them?
> >>>
> >> If you've installed all the necessary codecs (from the universe
> >> repository on ubuntu; plf on Mandriva), there's very little that can't
> >> be played by  mplayer, or vlc.  Try those first.
> >>
> >> If DRM is involved, you'll have to try Windows media player/wine - then
> >> use the "rec" program (part of sox), and the right mixer settings
> >> (gnome-alsamixer) to capture the result to .mp3.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Richard
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