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similitux

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Registered: 2011-05-11

Posts: 8

[solved] cmus does not recognize its ffmpeg input plugin

Hello,

The symptom is that I can not play my .wma files any more (Error: opening file `[music].wma': unrecognized filename extension). I think I found where the problem comes from: cmus --plugins does not report ffmpeg. But:
* the ffmpeg package is installed
* the cmus shared library is present in the input plugins folder
* I already have reinstalled them both to be sure I did not delete something
* It used to work before, the problem came up about one month ago

Do you have any hints on how to solve the problem? I suspect some sort of incompatibility between the default shipped versions of cmus and ffmpeg...

Thanks in advance,

Jany

$ cmus --plugins
Input Plugins: /usr/lib/cmus/ip
  mad:
    Priority: 55
    File Types: mp3 mp2
    MIME Types: audio/mpeg audio/x-mp3 audio/x-mpeg
  wav:
    Priority: 50
    File Types: wav
    MIME Types:
  vorbis:
    Priority: 50
    File Types: ogg
    MIME Types: application/ogg audio/x-ogg
  mpc:
    Priority: 50
    File Types: mpc mpp mp+
    MIME Types: audio/x-musepack
  flac:
    Priority: 50
    File Types: flac fla
    MIME Types:
  modplug:
    Priority: 50
    File Types: mod s3m xm it 669 amf ams dbm dmf dsm far mdl med mtm okt ptm stm ult umx mt2 psm
    MIME Types:
  mp4:
    Priority: 50
    File Types: mp4 m4a m4b
    MIME Types:
  aac:
    Priority: 50
    File Types: aac
    MIME Types: audio/aac audio/aacp
  wavpack:
    Priority: 50
    File Types: wv
    MIME Types: audio/x-wavpack

Output Plugins: /usr/lib/cmus/op
  pulse
  alsa
  oss
  ao

$ ls /usr/lib/cmus/ip
aac.so  ffmpeg.so  flac.so  mad.so  modplug.so  mp4.so  mpc.so  vorbis.so  wavpack.so  wav.so
# pacman -Ss ffmpeg
extra/ffmpeg 1:0.11.1-1 [installé]
    Complete and free Internet live audio and video broadcasting solution for
    Linux/Unix
# pacman -Ss cmus
community/cmus 2.4.3-2 [installé]
    A very feature-rich ncurses-based music player

edit: solved with AUR package `cmus-git'

Last edited by similitux (2012-08-10 19:15:10)

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: [solved] cmus does not recognize its ffmpeg input plugin

you need to open a bug report against the package. cmus needs to be rebuilt against ffmpeg-compat.

Edit: or you can try the git version from AUR, upstream has fixes related to ffmpeg in the devel versions.

Last edited by x33a (2012-08-07 12:16:36)

similitux

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Registered: 2011-05-11

Posts: 8

Re: [solved] cmus does not recognize its ffmpeg input plugin

Thanks for your reply. I filed a bug report.

I tried the git version from AUR, but it did not solve the problem.

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: [solved] cmus does not recognize its ffmpeg input plugin

actually it's in the pu branch of the cmus git repository. try it from here:

http://cmus.sourceforge.net/#download

similitux

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Registered: 2011-05-11

Posts: 8

Re: [solved] cmus does not recognize its ffmpeg input plugin

My bad, my quick evaluation of cmus-git from AUR was wrong: in fact, it did solve the problem! (it works right now)

Thanks again for your responsiveness!