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Re: Can't play *.wav files in XMMS.



On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 02:48:21PM +0100, Andreas Janssen said
> Hello
> 
> Adam (<a24061@yahoo.com>) wrote:
> 
> > (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?
> 
> Something is wrong with the wav file, or it is some non-standard format.

On this note, what does "file" say the type of the file is?

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