XMMS/OX3.3.5 won't play Oggs from Grip

[tawalker]

This evening, I was setting up an NFS mount on my 5500 (running OZ3.3.5), so I can listen to my Ogg file collection over my WLAN. I'm running XMMS on the Zaurus for multimedia playback.

Mounting the NFS share works perfectly, as does playing the Oggs, except for one big complication:

When I started ripping my CD collection to OGG format, I used tkcOggRipper running on our WinME laptop. After only a few CDs, I switched to Grip on my main Linux box, and Oggs created from Grip play back with no problems via XMMS on the Linux PC.

Problem is, they don't play back at all on XMMS/Zaurus. The most I get, if I'm 'lucky', is a split-second of garbled noise; most of the time, the file won't play, full stop.

I thought it might possibly be an NFS problem (despite the tkcOggRipper files playing fine), so I SFTPed one of the Grip Oggs over to the Z and tried playing that. No luck.

Has anyone else encountered problems with Grip-ped Ogg files on XMMS, and/or know a solution?

Many thanks,
Tim

[Pyrates]

Yeah, I think it's the codec version. Grip produces the lates (1.1 or so?), but the OZ stuff can just play versions prior to that... or similar, don't know exactly, had that problem as well (switched to mp3 because of that), if there's a solution, I'd really like to know...

Cheers
Philipp

[tawalker]

My word, that was quick

I really hope someone can think of a fix - I'm ripping my way through my CD collection, and don't want to use tkcOggRipper if I don't have to (I like the results from Grip much more).

Well, if anyone can come up with a workaround, it's you folks here  

Thanks so far,
Tim

[Pyrates]

You could check out Open Embedded if they have a never version. You'd have to build it yourself, but it's quite easy... I'll look into it later, maybe tonight or so...

cheers
Philipp

[tumnus]

grip uses oggenc AFAIK to encode oggs. So maybe it can be passed an option to encode with an older version of the spec or you could find a slightly older oggenc.

Personally I use the AudioCD IO slave in KDE and that works fine with the Sharp player and vorbis plugin.

[cschwarck]

Hi all,

Yep - I'm getting a very similar issue.  When I mount over NFS, XMMS doesn't want to play MP3's or Ogg's.. I'm using OZ 3.3.5 (stable) on a 5500.

-Schwach

[tawalker]

Schwach: I'm using exactly the same combination as you (SL5500, OZ 3.3.5, XMMS), although I don't think the problem that I'm having is due to NFS. (see my earlier post). "Your mileage may vary", as they say

Lardman said:

grip uses oggenc AFAIK to encode oggs. So maybe it can be passed an option to encode with an older version of the spec or you could find a slightly older oggenc.

Grip does use oggenc, which is why I'm puzzled at what I've just found. I'm a keen home recording musician, and I tried playing back a couple of Ogg files of my own home recordings, encoded using oggenc.

To my surprise, they played back perfectly on XMMS/Zaurus, unlike the Grip-ped tracks... which were also passed through oggenc. Maybe Grip does something strange to the Oggs, though I can't think what.

Personally I use the AudioCD IO slave in KDE and that works fine with the Sharp player and vorbis plugin.

I'm a GNOME user myself... not to start any arguments or anything  

HTH,
Tim