Topic: What is needed to support ogg? (SME 6.03)

[Anders Olsen]

Hi' all

I am the happy owner of a SliMP3 device (which is an audio-device). It can play mp3 and ogg files.

I have installed the software on SME and mp3-playing works fine. Ogg doesn't because I am supposed to install "LAME and the ogg tools", as it says in the manual. Now i have tried, but it won't work.

So; Have anyone succesfully installed ogg-tools on SME

[Michael]

Hi Anders

I'll receive my device in about 30 minutes . So I'm at the same stage: was looking for ogg support and hit your message. What did you do so far?

I downloaded libao, libvorbis and vorbistools from http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/. But there are still some failed dependencies (curl, libssl etc.). As I don't have the time to do some more digging right now I'll check this tonight.

Michael

[Michael]

Ok, here's the list of the files I installed. And it's running fine on my test environment (VMWare on 1GHz Athlon), but not the production system (VIA Ezra 800MHz)...

Download and install (rpm -ivh --nodeps *) the following (as root):

http://www.vorbis.com/files/1.0/unix/vorbis-tools-1.0-1.i386.rpm
http://www.vorbis.com/files/1.0/unix/libao-0.8.3-2.i386.rpm
http://www.vorbis.com/files/1.0/unix/libogg-1.0-1.i386.rpm
http://www.vorbis.com/files/1.0/unix/libvorbis-1.0-1.i386.rpm
http://www.idiap.ch/~sanders/not_lame/notlame-3.92-1.i686.rpm (> Pentium II)

notlame is not really lame. You need therefore to create the following symlink:
ln -s /usr/bin/notlame /usr/bin/lame

Hope I did not forget anything. Good luck!

Michael

[Anders Olsen]

Hi' Michael

Allways nice to meet another SliMP3 owner  

I have tried what you did, and the ogg's show up in the track-list as they are supposed to. But when i try to play one, the cpu maxes out and a huge amount of ogg-info threads are spawned.

Did you see that phenomenon?

[Michael]

Anders

Do the ogg-info threads only start when you play a file or is it while scanning directories? I'm not sure, but I think ogg-info is only used to read the id tags. ogg123 is used for playing.

What hardware do you use? notlame I mentioned did not run at all on my VIA Ezra.

Michael