Can't play *.wav files in XMMS.

[Adam <a24061@yahoo.com>]

(This is on Debian testing, but I'm also having the same problem with
RedHat 8 at work.)

I have xmms 1.2.8-2, which shows the plugin "Wave Player 1.2.8
[libwav.so]" as installed and enabled.  But it will not play or even
open *.wav files.  Any suggestions?

I also installed vorbis-tools 1.0.1-1, but it won't work:

$ oggenc start.wav 
Skipping chunk of type "fact", length 4
ERROR: Wav file is unsupported type (must be standard PCM
 or type 3 floating point PCM
ERROR: Input file "start.wav" is not a supported format

even though man oggenc says "oggenc  reads  audio  data  in either raw,
WAV, or AIFF format and encodes it into an Ogg Vorbis stream."

What am I missing or doing wrong?

Thanks,
Adam