Gnome 2.12.1 and ogg

[Darryl Clarke]

On 12/9/05, Aaron Kiley <aaron.kiley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I just discovered something interesting,
>
>  I am downloading some MP3's from the net then encoding them to ogg.
>
>  About I try to mostly use OSS, so it would seem stranged the gnome previews
> mp3's but will not do it with ogg,
>
>  To be honest I would have thought it to be the other way round.
>
>  In case I am not being clear, when I hover my mouse over an mp3 nautilus
> plays a preview of it, but if its encoded to ogg it does not.
>
>  Is it just me or does anyone else notice this?
>
>  Thanks

The way nautilus previews files is severely limited right now. It's
being reworked.

And, the good news is, Gnome is reworking it.  It's targeted for 2.14
to have nautilus' preview use gstreamer and essentially support
whatever gstreamer does.

see:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111511

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