[CltFlyboy]

I archive all of my media in Windows Media Lossless format (for a number of reasons - outside of the scope of this discussion). None of them play with Dharma RC1, or for that matter, any build newer than the old pre-Camelot builds. If I try to play an individual file, nothing happens visually. If I try to play a folder, I will get an operation failed - too many errors after it goes through enough WMA files.

Sysinfo is:
Win7 x86, all patches, *not* SP1 prerel
Intel Quad Core Q6660
4GB memory
XBMC Dharma RC1

syslog: http://pastebin.com/ApWXpFfc

I'd really love to figure out why this is happening and get it fixed as I have a LOT of media in this format. Can anyone help?

Thanks,

CltFlyboy

[jmarshall]

Get a full debug log for a start (settings->system->debugging).

It's likely, however, that your WMAs are simply not supported by ffmpeg. Try ffplay to confirm this.

[CltFlyboy]

Thanks for the lead. You were absolutely right, ffplay crashes with a "can't open codec1" error.

So the questions are:

1) What is the path from XBMC with regards to ffmpeg (as it's dead)?
2) Will there ever be native support for the WMA losslec codec?
3) Can I forklift support for the WMA lossless codec into ffmpeg myself?
4) If not the above, what can I do to make my media experience seamless? I just tried using both Media Player Classic and Windows Media Player but they distract from the "pure" XBMC experience

I think that there are a lot of people that either are using this codec or have used it and may have lots of files they want to play with XBMC...

Thoughts?

Thanks!

[jmarshall]

The only thing you can do is check with current ffmpeg (i.e. ffplay from mainline ffmpeg's svn/git) and if it still crashes, post a bug report with ffmpeg. Please make sure you do all you can to verify it's not a bad file, and ensure you supply all the information needed (eg ffplay logs, sample file etc.)

Unless you're a coder ofcourse and wish to bug hunt yourself

Cheers,
Jonathan

[CltFlyboy]

Thanks again Jonathan. I'll go down the ffmpeg debug route and see where I can get. I might just have to crack open the code, been a while since I did anything serious but I've been around the block more than once, been coding a long, long time

--Henry

[cold_realms]

Ahh so this is why Half my library has stopped playing.... I really hate having to keep two versions of files for compatibility with all my various devices... WMA Lossless allowed me to have 1 file for every device...

Sadly I will not have time to do all the leg work for the ffmpeg guys until winter break...

[CltFlyboy]

Hey Cold - this started happening waaaay back somewhere in the 16000 builds. I kept a version of PAPlayer that I knew worked for a long time, then the underlying ffmpeg filters got whacked and it's not worked since.

I'm with you, I like one format that's portable to my devices and WMA is my choice. I'm trying to find the time myself to determine where the solution will be...

--Henry

[cold_realms]

There is still no resolution or work around for this?

[cold_realms]

According to the FFmpeg website wma lossless decode support was added way back in june 2010.

So where is the failure?

[cold_realms]

So I found that WMA 10 Pro Lossless works... Something not available via standard tools. Still glad I found it

[cold_realms]

Scratch that. WMA works.... Lossless does not

[PeterMac]

same thing in RC2, WMA Lossless don't work

[jhsrennie]

When MS release the spec for WMA Lossless we'll support it. Life is too short to reverse engineer Microsoft's paranoia.

JR

[PeterMac]

Still not work WMA Lossless in latest XBMC 12 Frodo RC2, for example works great in foobar2000, please add it to XBMC.

[PeterMac]

Still nothing, c'mon xbmc team.