A plead to the developers for native support on OGG files

[NRasool]

Hi there

I'm just evaluting GL Basic, and would prob get the Premium pack, my background is in Blitz3d and I work full time as a Tech Support and Develop Support tools in C#. My own plead to the developers would be, please could you give us native support for OGG files. If we develop an application, I really don't wish for other users to install additional installer, I know you could use the -q (quiet) command in the installer but still.

Could the developer please add ogg support with static library

Other than that I'm loving it :-D

[Ian Price]

.OGG is supported, but doesn't always work on some systems. It works on my desktop, but not my two laptops and it works on Wiz and GP2X.

[NRasool]

Hi Ian,

Thanks, I think I have seen you around Playbasic forums right? Ahh my desktop PC does not play ogg file, so I looked at the help file, and it mentions that I need an ogg codec, hence my request. I know that Blitz3d will play ogg file straight off the bat without anything extra, so just wondered if GLBasic developers could just add in the library.

Would you know why it is not playing for some soundcard, especially since other languages play ogg file without any problem

[Ian Price]

Yep, I used to code in PlayBASIC - I haven't been on the forums for a couple of years now though. As for .OGG codecs, I've tried loads and none have worked successfully with my GLBasic games on my laptops

It's really odd, as ALL other programs can play .OGGs fine on all my machines.

[Kuron]

I know that Blitz3d will play ogg file straight off the bat without anything extra,

This is because the runtime for B3D includes the static lib for fmod.

[MrTAToad]

You could always use either FMOD or BASS

[NRasool]

Hey MrTAToad, You sound familar?, Blitz3d, Playbasic or Darkbasic

Anyway yup, I found some searches on BASS which I have used in the past, so will work on setting this up in glbasic

Many thanks for your response, I believe you wrote a bass wrapper :-)

[MrTAToad]

Used to use DBPro - and did write a BASS interface.  Not sure whether its still on my site though.

[Kuron]

Yep, I used to code in PlayBASIC - I haven't been on the forums for a couple of years now though. As for .OGG codecs, I've tried loads and none have worked successfully with my GLBasic games on my laptops

It's really odd, as ALL other programs can play .OGGs fine on all my machines.

What OS are you running on the problem systems?

[Ian Price]

Yep, I used to code in PlayBASIC - I haven't been on the forums for a couple of years now though. As for .OGG codecs, I've tried loads and none have worked successfully with my GLBasic games on my laptops

It's really odd, as ALL other programs can play .OGGs fine on all my machines.

What OS are you running on the problem systems?

My Desktop is Windows Xp as is one laptop - the other is Windows7. It's not OS related.

[NRasool]

My desktop is a Windows XP sp3, haven't tried on my vista machine yet

[trucidare]

OGG support on windows depence on codecs.
download ogg codec and you get ogg support on your machine. same with movies for playmovie

[Ian Price]

OGG support on windows depence on codecs.
download ogg codec and you get ogg support on your machine

Sorry, but this isn't entirely accurate. I've downloaded quite a few codecs for .OGG for my (now dead) XP laptop and none allowed .OGG files to play via GLBasic. It obviously requires a certain codec that I haven't yet obtained.

[trucidare]

if you can play ogg in windows media player you can play it in glbasic - thats the last status from kittie - if not hmm a bug?

[Ian Price]

Windows media Player? I wouldn't want to dirty my hands!