[LAU] Flac and Xine.

[Lars Luthman]

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 11:55 +0100, J M Needham wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If this is inappropriate for this list then let me know. Basically
> anything running using xine as a backend, as well as xmms, only plays
> some of my flac files. Many it won't play. I've just installed the patch
>  libxine-main1_1.1.1+ubuntu2-7.2+patch1_i386.deb but to do it I had to
> uninstall libexine1 first, then reinstall everything else (by that I mean
> amarok and kmplayer) but that also installed libxine1 as well, but I don't
> know if that has incorporated the patch or just overwritten it.
> 
> Amarok still does not play many of my flacs. Juk however does play _all my
> flacs, and I've tried to find out what it's using but I've been unable to.
> Due to personal preferance I dislike juk.
> 
> There are therefore 2 things going on here. What's the difference between
> the flac files that xine-backended stuff can play and those it can't, and
> why can juk play them and why can't xine? And have I installed thepatch
> adn how can I tell?
> 
> Apologies if this is all dumbass. Tell me which fm to rt if I need to.

Are the "unplayable" FLACs very short? I've had problems playing very
short FLAC files in mplayer, but I don't know how to fix that either.


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