[plug] Sound on Linux

[Simon Fryer]

Evening

Apologies if there have been any replies to this. I could not see any and 
I am feeling game.

> A while ago Jacqueline McNally tapped:

> At 11:00 AM 04/26/2002, you wrote:
> >PLUGers
> >
> >Our OSS list has a some little activities going at the mo' and I'd like to 
> >know
> >what minumum system people would be happy with to stream net audio.
> 
> I would like to know if anyone is using vorbis libraries and an ogg player 
> on their machine.

I tried with no success. Systems where a sparc station 5 running OpenBSD 2.9 
and a Pentium 166 running OpenBSD 2.8. From what I read of the documentation
the vorbis librarys are not tested in a BSD environment and this shows. 

Working out why it doesn't work has been on my todo list for about 6 months now
and unfortunatly does not rate on the must do list anytime soon. 

Both machines play MP3s happily so I know it is not the sound drivers under
OpenBSD or the sound hardware. 

[...]

Simon

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