At my company we have a bunch of music in FLAC format. We want to play it using the Windows Media Player, but none of us can get the illiminable DS filters to work. Here are some details. Illiminable DS filters http://www.wmplugins.com/ItemDetail.aspx?ItemID=681 http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/ We are using the latest build available on this website, and I have read all the known issues. My computer has: Windows XP SP2 Windows Media Player 10 Both are up-to-date I install the DS filter as per instructions on the web site above. FLAC (and other Ogg formats) are now associated with WMP. If I try to play FLAC files, the WMP tries to find the codec on the internet and fails. If I look at the WMP options, and go to the plug-ins tab, there is nothing listed under audio codecs. If I try to manually add the ogg filters I get no error message, but nothing gets added. I get the same result on other WinXP SP2 computers here. I haven't tried it on different OS's. I don't need to use the illiminable filters - any solution for WMP is fine. I know there are other players, and that is fine for me, but not for some other people. Thanks, Tom.
Try this one here instead : http://packs.matroska.org . Get the full pack, it also contains CoreFLAC DirectShow filter. Alternatively, CoreFLAC alone should be found here http://corecodec.org/projects/coreflac ( haven't checked for a while though ), there should also be a DShow encoder coming with it, as well as an ACM plugin for Video for Windows based programs like Virtualdub ( decoder only, as ACM is only CBR ). Christian matroska project admin http://www.mnatroska.org Tom schrieb:> At my company we have a bunch of music in FLAC format. We want to play > it using the Windows Media Player, but none of us can get the > illiminable DS filters to work. Here are some details. > > Illiminable DS filters > http://www.wmplugins.com/ItemDetail.aspx?ItemID=681 > http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/ > We are using the latest build available on this website, and I have read > all the known issues. > > My computer has: > Windows XP SP2 > Windows Media Player 10 > Both are up-to-date > > I install the DS filter as per instructions on the web site above. > FLAC (and other Ogg formats) are now associated with WMP. If I try to > play FLAC files, the WMP tries to find the codec on the internet and > fails. If I look at the WMP options, and go to the plug-ins tab, there > is nothing listed under audio codecs. If I try to manually add the ogg > filters I get no error message, but nothing gets added. > > I get the same result on other WinXP SP2 computers here. I haven't > tried it on different OS's. > > I don't need to use the illiminable filters - any solution for WMP is > fine. I know there are other players, and that is fine for me, but not > for some other people. > > Thanks, > Tom.
Tom Malcolmson
2005-Mar-30 16:44 UTC
[Flac] Re: Illiminable DS filters for FLAC don't work
Thanks Christian. Now I can play my FLAC files with WiMP. I uninstalled the illuminable package and then installed the Matroska. The result was the opposite that I got for the illuminable: the illuminable package registered the types but WiMP couldn't find the codecs, the Matroska didn't register the types but it did make the codecs available. This is much preferable of course since I can now play my flac files. It does seem like a problem to me that the illuminable package is well advertised (ie. it is listed as the solutioon for FLAC on the WMP site) and yet it doesn't work. BTW, I think the URL in your signiture is incorrect 'mnatroska'. Tom. ChristianHJW wrote:> > Try this one here instead : > > http://packs.matroska.org . Get the full pack, it also contains > CoreFLAC DirectShow filter. Alternatively, CoreFLAC alone should be > found here http://corecodec.org/projects/coreflac ( haven't checked > for a while though ), there should also be a DShow encoder coming with > it, as well as an ACM plugin for Video for Windows based programs like > Virtualdub ( decoder only, as ACM is only CBR ). > > Christian > matroska project admin > http://www.mnatroska.org > > Tom schrieb: > >> At my company we have a bunch of music in FLAC format. We want to >> play it using the Windows Media Player, but none of us can get the >> illiminable DS filters to work. Here are some details. >> >> Illiminable DS filters >> http://www.wmplugins.com/ItemDetail.aspx?ItemID=681 >> http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/ >> We are using the latest build available on this website, and I have >> read all the known issues. >> >> My computer has: >> Windows XP SP2 >> Windows Media Player 10 >> Both are up-to-date >> >> I install the DS filter as per instructions on the web site above. >> FLAC (and other Ogg formats) are now associated with WMP. If I try >> to play FLAC files, the WMP tries to find the codec on the internet >> and fails. If I look at the WMP options, and go to the plug-ins tab, >> there is nothing listed under audio codecs. If I try to manually add >> the ogg filters I get no error message, but nothing gets added. >> >> I get the same result on other WinXP SP2 computers here. I haven't >> tried it on different OS's. >> >> I don't need to use the illiminable filters - any solution for WMP is >> fine. I know there are other players, and that is fine for me, but >> not for some other people. >> >> Thanks, >> Tom. > > > _______________________________________________ > Flac mailing list > Flac@xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac