[desktop-discuss] Re: Re: browser should support embed wavs.

[Jacob Ritorto]

> Note: WAV files can include various encodings;
> audioplay doesn't support them all.

Here's something else that's weird about audioplay:

An ultra5 running Solaris Express b51a will play the Nagios sounds, no complaints.

jritorto at jritorto-solaris:~> audioplay Software/gjallarhorn-nagios/nagios-2.3.1/html/media/critical.wav
jritorto at jritorto-solaris:~>

...but a pc running Solaris Express b51 and connected via Sun Ray will not:

jritorto at alabaster:~>  audioplay Software/gjallarhorn-nagios/nagios-2.3.1/html/media/critical.wav
audioplay: Software/gjallarhorn-nagios/nagios-2.3.1/html/media/critical.wav encoding not available: mono 8.000000-bit (unknown encoding?) @ 11.025kHz
jritorto at alabaster:~>

As root on the pc, no problem:
# audioplay ~jritorto/Software/gjallarhorn-nagios/nagios-2.3.1/html/media/critical.wav
#



> 
> According to
> http://www.mp3licensing.com/licensees/index.asp, Sun
> has an MP3
> license (although I have no idea of just what it
> covers).
> 
> Even if audioplay could be modified to support MP3
> WAV files, it may well be
> impossible for the MP3 decoder to be open source.
>   (OTOH
> tp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3 says the patent holder
> aren't enforcing against
> free decoders, and I think I see an mp3 input plugin
> for the SFW xmms.
> 
> So could audioplay be enhanced for MP3 (and any other
> common non-proprietary
> WAV encodings not already supported) or not?
> 
> Some sort of proper plugin (with a small GUI) would

Yikes, having a gui would be a major dealbreaker for me.  The embed has to just play without interaction like it does on all other platforms.  This is for Nagios alerts on a keyboardless workstation used as a heads up display in a NOC.

> be nice, too.  Can something
> already present or already open source be used like
> that (without crud like Xswallow
> or plugger)?
Werd ^




Thanks..

jake
 
 
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