FLAC support with DSL?

Forum: Multimedia
Topic: FLAC support with DSL?
started by: vinoloco

Posted by vinoloco on Oct. 20 2005,03:45

Hey out there... Does anybody have information on FLAC plugins for DSL audio apps? I'd prefer XMMS support but would make do with just about anything... Thanks for the help.

vino

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Oct. 20 2005,03:50

Get the codecpack.dsl, foo

~J.P.

Posted by vinoloco on Oct. 20 2005,03:58

J.P., Sounds like this is what I need but when I try to download from the "DSL download extention panel" I get the following error:

"Non DSL User error"

Haven't seen that before... Andy idea what is wrong? I'm certainly a DSL user... not trying to load things into Ubuntu or RH or anything....

vino

Posted by mikshaw on Oct. 20 2005,05:08

What that means is that you're trying to install a mydsl package as a user other than "dsl". The mydsl system was built for this user, and does not work fully as another user. Also it can break file ownerships if used as root.

If you got this error it means that the file was downloaded and it attempted to install, so it should still be in /tmp. Log in as user dsl and then use the command "mydsl-load /tmp/codecpack.dsl" to install it.

Posted by vinoloco on Oct. 20 2005,06:10

OK, fixed the download issue by logging in as dsl and the package was installed fine. Thanks for the help.

Now the only issue is how do I get an application to play my FLAC files... XMMS still won't play them. Do I have to enable something in XMMS or do I need to use another player?

vino

Posted by prd09988 on Oct. 21 2005,22:36

Hi,
I had the same problem with xmms since I also had .flac files
to play. I tried downloading the xmms-flac plugins from www.xmms.org but they had an .deb extension meaning they were debian and I didn't know how to port them into .dsl so I gave up.
I accidentally found out that mplayer.dsl in the myDSL repository can play .flac audio files (I also grabbed the codepack.dsl for other things too) when you select all files inside the preferences, open files) I suggest you can it a quick try.
Good Luck.