[MPlayer-users] xmms plugins?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 03:52:40PM +0200, Petr Tomasek wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I tried mplayer with xmms plugins: It works well with flac files,
> but mplayer refuses to play speex files encapsulated within the
> Ogg container (as produced by the speexenc) - It tries to play
> it as a Vorbis file, but no vorbis stream is found, so mplayer terminates.
> 
> Is it possible somehow to tell mplayer to try the xmms codes first
> and if it fails than try the other?
> 
> It seems, the support for xmms plugins in mplayer is quite weird: it
> doesn't apper in the codecs/codecs-families listings and when
> playing files throught them, mplayer thinks it is a raw stream.

This is because xmms plugin architecture is poorly designed and can't
read from mplayer's streams. It has to access the file itself. So
there's no clean way to do auto-detection. xmms plugin support is a
huge hack, so it's best to just get native support for these codecs in
mplayer...

Rich