Playing OGG files

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PlayingOggFiles

Gstreamer ogg codecs Ogg capable players if gstreamer ogg codecs are installed Players with built-in ogg capability Ogg is a container capable of containing e.g. audio and video streams. This page means vorbis audio codec in ogg container even though speaking about just "ogg".

The Nokia Internet Tablets don't have ogg support out of the box, but you can listen audio in this format by installing third party software.

Gstreamer ogg codecs

These codecs run on the main CPU, not on the DSP.

Ogg capable players if gstreamer ogg codecs are installed

  • UKMP
  • Kilikali
  • Exaile port for maemo
  • Kagu (uses osso-media-server like the built-in player)

Players with built-in ogg capability

  • Mplayer
  • Ogg Vorbis Player (for the 770 only)
  • mpd

See also this (long) InternetTabletTalk thread: gstreamer with ogg vorbis support

There is information for developers to enable ogg support in their applications at the "Getting started with multimedia" how-to pages for maemo 4.x, maemo 3.x, and maemo 2.2)

About having Ogg support in the tablets out of the box, see Bug 176: Support for OGG Vorbis / Theora missing.