trak87
April 21st, 2007, 09:41 PM
(This is for feisty, but I would imagine the same applies to Edgy.)
The xmms flac plugin does play flac files, but it crashes xmms if you try to edit any of the plugin's settings. I was however able to compile the latest version of flac (1.1.4) and it works fine. I'll briefly mention how I did it.
As best as I can remember, install xmms, xmms-dev, libvorbis-dev, libogg-dev, nasm and of course build-essential.
Download and unpack the flac 1.1.4 source code from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/flac/.
cd into the flac-1.1.4 directory.
Run ./configure. (Look through the output and see if I forgot any libraries (hehe).
Run make.
If all went well, look in the flac-1.1.4/src/plugin_xmms/.libs directory and copy libxmms-flac.so into your ~/.xmms/Plugins directory. Restart xmms. Xmms will choose this plugin over any flac plugin installed at /usr/lib/xmms/Input.
That's it.
I would still like to know the proper way to create Ubuntu style .deb files. I realize I can run checkinstall but I'm not sure if that's the same thing.
The xmms flac plugin does play flac files, but it crashes xmms if you try to edit any of the plugin's settings. I was however able to compile the latest version of flac (1.1.4) and it works fine. I'll briefly mention how I did it.
As best as I can remember, install xmms, xmms-dev, libvorbis-dev, libogg-dev, nasm and of course build-essential.
Download and unpack the flac 1.1.4 source code from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/flac/.
cd into the flac-1.1.4 directory.
Run ./configure. (Look through the output and see if I forgot any libraries (hehe).
Run make.
If all went well, look in the flac-1.1.4/src/plugin_xmms/.libs directory and copy libxmms-flac.so into your ~/.xmms/Plugins directory. Restart xmms. Xmms will choose this plugin over any flac plugin installed at /usr/lib/xmms/Input.
That's it.
I would still like to know the proper way to create Ubuntu style .deb files. I realize I can run checkinstall but I'm not sure if that's the same thing.