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liro
Joined: 28 Jul 2012
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 Posted: Sat 29 Sep 2012, 00:42 Post subject:
 Error message opening MP3 files in VLC under WINE **SOLVED** |
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I have Paint Shop Pro under WINE as the default image editor for JPG files in Puppy (Slacko 5.3.3), so when I click on a JPG file it automatically opens in this program through WINE. I did this by adjusting the "Run action" command for JPG files.
Using the same method, I tried to set the default MP3 player as VLC (already installed) under Wine. However, when I click on an MP3 file, I now get the following error message from VLC:
File reading failed:
VLC could not open the file "music\album\song.mp3". (%m)
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'file:///music/album/song.mp3'. Check the log for details.
The program does start though (when I click off the error message) and I can open the same MP3 manually via the program menu and it runs fine.
Does anyone know how I could bypass this error message and get MP3 files to run automatically with VLC?
Thanks.
PS: In case anyone was wondering, I have a specific reason for wanting to use the Windows version of VLC (not the Linux one or a different Linux audio player).
Last edited by liro on Mon 01 Oct 2012, 00:02; edited 1 time in total
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Burn_IT
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VLC is available to run directly under Puppy without needing Wine.
I'm fairly sure it is a quickpet, but I'm on a Work machine At the moment and cannot look.
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bark_bark_bark
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Why use Wine? Wine is often incompatible with a lot of software.
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Burn_IT
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There are occasions when Linux does not have the tool/software with the features that a Windows utility has.
Wine then becomes extremely useful in the way that Cygwin is for Linux tools that have no equivalent under Windows.
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liro
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Thanks for the replies. As mentioned, I want to use the Windows version of this prog for a specific reason (I won't bore you with it here as it's kind of off-topic). Anyway, I'm now able to get MP3 files to open automatically with VLC under Wine, thanks to this solution kindly provided by MikeB via PM:
Go to Choices/Mime-types/audio_mpeg
Change the contents of this to:
#! /bin/sh
a=${1/\//Z:\\}
a=${a//\//\\}
wine "[location of vlc.exe]" "$a"
...and now it works fine =).
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