XMMS Won't Play My Ogg Vorbis Files

Forum: Multimedia
Topic: XMMS Won't Play My Ogg Vorbis Files
started by: karoach71

Posted by karoach71 on Jan. 30 2007,00:10

Hi All,

No matter what I try, I can't make XMMS play my Ogg Vorbis music files. The sound chipset is correctly configured (ie. using tone://1000 produces a tone), but Ogg files won't even load, and M3Us only skip along.

I've even tried resetting the permissions on the files...Am I missing something?

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Jan. 30 2007,00:16

I'm guessing the xmms that comes with dsl does not have the ogg plugin decoders, so you will have to externally download and install them.

Posted by karoach71 on Jan. 30 2007,00:23

I had checked for that in XMMS configuration, and indeed, the decoder plugin appears to have gone missing.

I'll check the MyDSL lists for this.

Failing that, are there alternatives?

Posted by karoach71 on Jan. 30 2007,00:29

I may have found a way to bypass the problem, without giving up my favorite open source player:

I've installed Grip, the flac.dsl plugin (encoder), and the XMMS FLAC decoder. Hope these work...