Re: Can't play *.wav files in XMMS.

From: Daniel Frank (debian_at_cosmo-canyon.de)
Date: 02/06/04

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    Adam wrote:

    >I have xmms 1.2.8-2, which shows the plugin "Wave Player 1.2.8
    >[libwav.so]" as installed and enabled. But it will not play or even
    >open *.wav files. Any suggestions?
    >
    >

    >ERROR: Wav file is unsupported type (must be standard PCM
    > or type 3 floating point PCM
    >ERROR: Input file "start.wav" is not a supported format
    >
    >even though man oggenc says "oggenc reads audio data in either raw,
    >WAV, or AIFF format and encodes it into an Ogg Vorbis stream."
    >
    >What am I missing or doing wrong?
    >
    >
    Wav-files are only container files that can contain uncompressed
    ("standard PCM" or something like this) or compressed sounds. Playing a
    wav-file only works if you have the (de-)compressor available. As far as
    I know xmms can only play uncompressed wav-files (but I'm not sure about
    this).

    Maybe mplayer has the needed decompressor for your wav-file. Try to
    install mplayer if you don't have already and use it to create an
    uncompressed wav-file. AFAIR mplayer is able to create uncompressed
    wav-files (try man mplayer).

    Regards,
    Daniel 

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