Almost like this but need some final help, WMA and startup

[iminhell]

First off num lock disables on shut down and I have to turn it back on every time I restart. How can I enable num lock on startup?

Then I can not get Amarok to play WMA audio, I have all the proper codecs far as I know (good, bad, ...). It comes up with an error saying no decoder available. I can't find what I apparently need. Same issue with Rythembox. So that tells me some codec didn't take.
All my music is WMA (loss less) so I'm kind of upset on this one.


-John

[unutbu]

Have you tried Ubuntu-freak's Comprehensive Multimedia & Video Howto:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766683 ?
It is long, but it has helped a boatload of people.

And for the numlock problem, perhaps install the numlockx package.

[mc4man]

if you didn't get wma going - for amarok
install libxine1-ffmpeg (will enable everything but wma lossless

for wma lossless add w32codecs (from medibuntu repo - see above link for how to add or

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

or direct dl, install
http://packages.medibuntu.org/intrepid/w32codecs.html

http://packages.medibuntu.org/hardy/w32codecs.html

if your running hardy (8.04) and enable medibuntu as repo source you'll get an upgraded amarok

[iminhell]

Nicely played mac4man.
It was "w32codecs" that I needed to play wma lossless. Working fine now.


Still have the num lock issue though, numlockx didn't change a thing.
I did forget to mention I am running 8.10, sorry about that.

[mc4man]

Good to see your using amarok, In 8.10 I'd stay away from depending on gstreamer players for anything more than a menu entry. (just my opinion

As far as the numlock, the numlockx is just an on/off during a session.

Maybe look in preferences -> keyboard and see what layout it's set on / # of keys ect. (not really up on that, mine is set as generic, 105-key and works fine thru reboot.