Hello all, I have been trying to play the Guadec Theora files ( http://stream.fluendo.com/archive/6uadec/ ) on Windows with no success. At first I thought it was just the machine which I was trying it on, but I now have seen another machine play other Theora files (Systm, Ubuntu Below Zero) without problems, but treat Guadec as just being audio files. I do also have another machine here which treats all the aforementioned Theora files as sound files (after connecting to the Internet to try and find an appropriate codec). These files work fine for me in Ubuntu so I was wondering if the Guadec Theoras are malformed in some respect or whether the dsf filters for Theora are not quite complete yet. I realise that the dsf filters are maintained largely by one person, so this isn't a critique; I would just like to help solve the problem :). Can anyone play the Guadec conference in WMP? Thanks in advance, Aaron -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3268 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora/attachments/20060111/7b9552fa/smime.bin
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:14:46PM +1300, Aaron Whitehouse wrote:> Hello all, > > I have been trying to play the Guadec Theora files ( > http://stream.fluendo.com/archive/6uadec/ ) > on Windows with no success. At first I thought it was just the machine > which I was trying it on, but I now have seen another machine play other > Theora files (Systm, Ubuntu Below Zero) without problems, but treat > Guadec as just being audio files.IIRC there were some minor issues with the Guadec 2005 files, which might cause the problem you're seeing. Thomas was going to fix them, but apparently didn't. I'll let illi comment on the filters themselves, but that's probably the issue. (i.e. the files are malformed but most players still cope.) If it's really important they should be easy enough to remux. A round-trip through liboggz should do the trick. FWIW, -r
Hi, I haven't time to look really closely, at the moment... It was possibly because the files are cut out of a larger file, and are non-zero based streams. Whatever it was, it is fixed in svn, and all those files (well the 5 or so i tried) work with a current svn build. (and work as http streams, if you have enough bandwidth) There should be a new release any week now. If you really want a copy of the current svn build now, send me a mail off the list, and i'll send you one. I don't want to release it publically, since it's not using the proper installer and there is lots of new stuff which is not properly tested, and i don't want to have to support anyone who installs this version. But i will give you instructions about how to install, and what you'll need to do when the actual release version is ready, assuming you can handle any new bugs that might be introduced. (Nothing difficult just have to make sure the old versions are properly removed, and that you fully remove this version before installing a new release version, etc) Zen. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Whitehouse" <lists@whitehouse.org.nz> To: <theora@xiph.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 9:14 AM Subject: [Theora] Guadec 2005 and DirectShow Filters> _______________________________________________ > Theora mailing list > Theora@xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/theora >