Re: [Nautilus-list] Nautilus with ogg

[Remi Cohen-Scali <Remi Cohen-Scali COM>]

Dan Mueth wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Remi Cohen-Scali wrote:
>
> > To enable ogg123 to use esd (of course if it has been compiled with esd
> > support activated, but this is the default), you need to tell ogg123
> > what driver it has to use to play. Just set a line like:
> > default_driver=esd
> > in a .ogg123rc file in your home or in /etc/ogg123rc to set a system
> > wide default.
>
> Thanks for the info.  This is great to know.
>
> This isn't really the solution we want to use if we are hoping to make
> things easy for people (esp. less technical users) though.  Ideally it
> will just work for people, or possibly work once people configure it
> through a dialog.
>
> Can we expect that all GNOME users use esd?  If so, we could just use "-d
> esd" in the call in Nautilus.  If we think some people may decide to turn
Yes I think this is a good solution, if ogg123 have been compiled with 
esd support (constraint is on libao).

> off esd, we could have a preferences dialog which either allows people to
> select to not use esd or else which gives users a short list of device
> options to choose from for passing to ogg123.  Using esd should be the
> default behavior if it is not reconfigured since this is the GNOME sound
> server. Ideally in the future all of this will be done by communicating
> with the control-center, but for now I guess it makes sense to put it in
> Nautilus' preferences.  Or is there a simple way to poll the
> control-center to find out if esd is being used?
Yes it is possible. The music view already do that
gnome_config_get_bool ("/sound/system/settings/start_esd=true")

> Dan


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