Richard Stallman on Free Software

[Amanda Lee]

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 at uic.edu>
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.
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