Using mplayer codecs to play aiff files

[linucks42 at gmail.com]

Hi Seb,

Thanks for the response.

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote
>
>
> > I'm currently struggling to get Amarok to recognise AIFF files. If I try
> and
> > play one with Amarok I get the message:
> >
> > "No suitable demux plugin. This often means that the file format is not
> > supported."
> >
> > However, I can play the .aiff files fine in mplayer. Is there any way to
> get
> > Amarok to use whatever codec is working for mplayer?
>
> No, you need to install the codecs which phonon/xine will use.
>
>
Sorry if this isn't the correct place to ask this, but do you happen to know
what packages are required under Ubuntu to install the correct codecs?

I've got amarok-xine, libxine1 and libxine1-ffmpeg installed and I'd have
thought that the aiff codec would be in there somewhere?

Thanks!
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