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I'm using XMBC on Windows XP. I have a music server broadcasting DAAP. The server is working great and XBMC has no problem playing music from it--mp3 and m4a's work fine. However, when it tries to play on OGG file (variable bitrate) I get just static. Is there an extra codec I need for Windows so it will play ogg's, or do I need some bleeding edge version of XBMC for XP (I have Atlantis right now, latest downloadable)? Note that it is not the files themselves, because I can play the oggs in my XBMC for Linux just fine (and on another XP computer via Songbird without problems).
althekiller
2009-05-17, 00:35
XBMC uses no external codecs. You need to pastebin a debug log.
http://pastebin.com/f650ee2f1
Note that it successfully plays one (ext mp3) and then fails on file 8132.wav (ogg files are transcoded on the firefly server for ALL clients, so I know its not a server transcode problem)
I've now tested this and found that it also does not play correctly in XBMC for Linux (even with the newest gstreamer plugins installed). The debug log looks identical, but I'll post it anyway:
http://pastebin.com/f4ce6af83
Temporary solution was to modify FireFly's configuration so that it does not transcode .ogg files to .wav (remember, I know that the transcoding done by FireFly is fine since a transcoded ogg will play in other media players, just not XBMC). However, since XBMC can play .ogg files, if you tell FireFly not to transcode, XBMC can handle the ogg file correctly.