Richard Stallman on Free Software

[Gregory Nowak]

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.


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