Comment 26 for bug 461966

This started happening to me after I installed OpenShot using packages from their website. I've since used Synaptic to "completely remove" anything with OpenShot in the name (one of the packages was openshot-ffmpeg) and the problem has disappeared.

works fine now

concord@Lenovo-Linux:~/Documents$ for i in *.WMA; do mplayer -vo null -vc dummy -af resample=44100 -ao pcm:waveheader:file="${i%.WMA}.wav" "$i" ; done
MPlayer UNKNOWN-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

Playing WS500136.WMA.
ASF file format detected.
[asfheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16002->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
==========================================================================
[AO PCM] File: WS500136.wav (WAVE)
PCM: Samplerate: 44100Hz Channels: Stereo Format s16le
[AO PCM] Info: Faster dumping is achieved with -vc null -vo null -ao pcm:fast
[AO PCM] Info: To write WAVE files use -ao pcm:waveheader (default).
AO: [pcm] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Video: no video
Starting playback...
A:2201.7 (36:41.7) of 2201.0 (36:41.0) 0.5%

Exiting... (End of file)
concord@Lenovo-Linux:~/Documents$