[NBLUG/talk] What provides Amarok with support for Ogg Vorbis?

matt matt at cfxnetworks.com
Fri Aug 25 22:30:56 PDT 2006


Well, it's probably Xine that can't play them rather than Amarok.

Two things:
1) Check to see if the Xine player can play an OGG>
2) Check to see if you have libogg and libvorbis installed.

On Friday 25 August 2006 22:26, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> I ripped a bunch of CD's to as OGG files on a box running Debian/testing. 
> For a while, it was working fine, but a few weeks ago I reinstalled my OS,
> and I can no longer play OGG files in Amarok.  I get a "no suitable demux
> plugin" error any time I try to play an OGG file.
>
> I'm running Amarok 1.4.1 with the Xine engine.  I can play MP3 files but
> not OGG files.  My system does not appear to have any broken dependencies.
>
> I'm guessing that the necessary plug-in somehow wasn't listed as a
> dependency, or it was merely recommended or suggested but didn't have a
> name that would suggest a connection to Ogg Vorbis.
>
> Anyone happen to know which package Amarok needs on Debian in order to play
> OGG files, or any other possible cause of this error?  I'm a bit worried,
> as I've rigged a cron job to make Amarok function as an alarm clock, and if
> it tries and fails to play an OGG file, it can't do a very good job of
> waking me up!
>
>
> (In case you're wondering, I think the reason I didn't notice anything
> wrong until now is because there are many more MP3 files than OGG files in
> my collection, and MP3 files still play just fine.)

-- 
Valê,
Matt
matt at cfxnetworks.com



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