Re: [suse-amd64] XMMS and Windows

Gerhard den Hollander wrote:

*It does not matter what format they are in. No file of any format stored on the windows computer will play from it. I can copy those files from the windows computer to my laptop and they will play fine. I wonder from the way they start and then stop if I have some kind of authentication problem. The fact that they will play with MPlayer seems to shoot that theory down though. I do love MPlayer and would love to get the mozilla plugin working. (See my other post)

D David (Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 03:21:12PM -0600)

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I have a Windows XP computer that I use mostly for storage. It has a large hard drive and lots of room. I have a wireless connection from my laptop to this computer. I am using SuSE 9.2 64b on my laptop. I cannot play any of the music that is stored on the windows computer with XMMS.

What file format are they in ? .mp3 ? .wma ? .shn ? .flac ? .wav ? .aiff ? .ogg ?

If they are (as I expect) .wma files you are s.o.l. Windows Media Audio is a windows proprietary crap format that should be avoided at all costs.

mplayer is na brilliant program, that uses the winodws codecs to play windows files (and does a very, very good job of it)

Currently listening to: The Tea Party - Walk With Me

gerhard, == The Acoustic Motorbiker ==