GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 167946
Nautilus sound preview doesn't work with OGG files.
Last modified: 2007-10-30 23:57:11 UTC
This bug has been opened here: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/6735 "I installed "sox" so as to get sound preview in Nautilus, for mp3, wav, flac and ogg files. It works fine with mp3 and wav files, but it won't preview ogg files... :-/ The problem is there both on Warty and Hoary."
I'm using Gnome 2.12 from www.gware.org and confirm Nautilus doesn't preview OGG files like MP3 files do. I did some test and when Nautilus previews MP3 files, it launch mpg123 -q - and works well, but when previews ogg files, it try to launch ogg123 -q - and here is the problem. ogg123 doesn't recognize "-" option to read playlist from standard input. I don't know if previous ogg123 releases had that option, but not now (ogg123 from vorbis-tools 1.0.1). Nautilus won't use gstreamer to these tasks?
Miguel: Thanks for tracking this down. No, as of writing Nautilus does not use gstreamer, but it will probably be used for Nautilus 2.14 (bug 111511). Are you motivated enough to come up with a patch for the issue? :) If so, please also submit it to the Nautilus mailing list [1] for review. [1] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
Shamelessly marking as depending on bug 111511 so that we don't loose it when migrating to GStreamer. Removing milestone, updating version.
This is not working in GNOME 2.16.1, but mp3 files don't work either (they did maybe two years ago, but except that, I don't remember the audio preview feature ever working again recently). Could something have happened?
The bug URL is now: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/13090
I'm using Gnome v2.18.1 at Ubuntu Feisty and still doesn't reproduce .ogg files.
Works with the code committed in bug 486827. There are a bunch of patches for stable releases as well. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 486827 ***