Hi list, I have been trying to get the new file extension for Ogg FLAC (.oga) to work with Amarok. But it does not look to be possible due to limitations in the xine and gstreamer engines. Maybe the move to .oga was prematurely? I have done some testing with other players?including Banshee, Quod Libet, and others?but have not had any success with playing the .oga files. Only player I have got it to work with is VLC. A quick work around is to manually specify a .ogg extension and audio/x-oggflac MIME type. -- Daniel Aleksandersen
On 9/18/07, Daniel Aleksandersen <aleksandersen+xiphlists@runbox.com> wrote:> Maybe the move to .oga was prematurely?No, it wasn't premature. We have been having this discussion since last year. We are contacting the projects that deal, for instance, with Ogg FLAC, we're gong to submit the memo with the new file extensions/media types to the IETF soon, and some of us are even writing patches to the different projects out there.> I have done some testing with other players?including Banshee, Quod Libet,If you actually want to help, you should either contact the developer team of those projects, either directly or by opening a ticket on their bug tracker, or the better solution yet: write a patch. The quicker the transition problems are solved the better it will be for everyone.> A quick work around is to manually specify a .ogg extension and > audio/x-oggflac MIME type.How is this a work around? It seems to cause more problems than what it solves. -Ivo
On 2007-09-18, Ivo wrote:> On 9/18/07, Daniel Aleksandersen <aleksandersen+xiphlists@runbox.com>wrote:> > Maybe the move to .oga was prematurely? > > No, it wasn't premature. We have been having this discussion since > last year. We are contacting the projects that deal, for instance, > with Ogg FLAC, we're gong to submit the memo with the new file > extensions/media types to the IETF soon, and some of us are even > writing patches to the different projects out there. > > > I have done some testing with other players?including Banshee, Quod > > Libet, > > If you actually want to help, you should either contact the developer > team of those projects, either directly or by opening a ticket on > their bug tracker, or the better solution yet: write a patch.I have submitted bug reports.> The quicker the transition problems are solved the better it will be > for everyone. > > > A quick work around is to manually specify a .ogg extension and > > audio/x-oggflac MIME type. > > How is this a work around? It seems to cause more problems than what it > solves.At least the files are playable. -- Daniel Aleksandersen -- Daniel Aleksandersen <aleksandersen@runbox.no>