Using mplayer codecs to play aiff files

[E. Berkenpies]

Please make sure you also have phonon-xine installed.

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Eelko Berkenpies
http://www.berkenpies.nl/

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:53:15 +0100, linucks42 at gmail.com wrote:
> 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!