Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3959 mails)

[James Ogley <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> If I click on the DVD icon at the desktop, I get the /dev/dvd mounted, and can find the
> files on the cd in the /media/dvd.

I assume you're using KDE - clickingon the icon mounts it - you don't
want to mount the CD, you just want to access the device in XMMS, so
don't click on the desktop icon!

OGG, like MP3 is a lossy audio format, but unlike MP3, it is released
under an Open Source license, so there are no patent issues, nor any
danger of royalty payments for using it.  Plus of course, being Free,
it's better than the proprietary MP3 anyway.

XMMS's OGG support is included in the xmms-plugins package on the SusE
disks, and oggec which you can use instead of, say, lame to create OGGs
(rather than MP3s) is in the vorgis-tools package - if you use Grip to
make MP3s, this can use oggenc to create OGGs instead.
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