I think I saw something about vorbis tools in slackware 8.0 setup. How can I tell if I can just play the files without needing to download anything? Thanks. Greg > ----- Original Message ----- >From: Geoff Shang <gshang at uq.net.au >To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca >Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 13:01:12 +1000 >Subject: Re: Richard Stallman on Free Software >Hi: >It's an .ogg file. You can get the vorbis input plugin from www.vorbis.com >- go to downloads and to windows. >Folks, vorbis is the free, open, patentless, free of royalties lossy audio >compression codec that already out-performs MP3 and is still improving. If >you aren't equiped to handle this format yet, I highly recommend doing so. >For linux, you can get redhat RPM's from vorbis.com as well as source >tarballs. You need libogg, libvorbis, libao, vorbis-tools and, if you want >to use the ogg123 player, you need to get curl from elsewhere (this need >isn't documented). People running Debian Syd can get the vorbis-tools >package and the rest should take care of itself. If 1.0rc3 hasnt' appeared >in woody yet, it should have by now, it will soon. >Let me know if you have any queries. >Geoff. >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
