I'd think that if it doesn't play when you load it, there's a possibility it isn't supported in your audio player. Since it isn't a standard file type that is recognized, you'd need some sort of pluggin. I went looking through the ones supported by winamp and .ogg definitely wasn't shown. Since I don't know the Linux equivalent audio players, if there's a way to show which types are supported, then look through that list. If .ogg isn't supported, there's your answer. Amanda Lee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 10:58 PM Subject: Re: Richard Stallman on Free Software > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
