[vorbis] problems with the winamp plugin

[Cherniavsky Beni]

Steven Bailey wrote:
> 
> I'll be damned.  It was Netscape, of all things.  Netscape seems to
> think that the .dll is an ascii file!?  I don't understand what has been
> messed up for it to be doing this, but it tries to open the winamp .dll
> as a text file, which I then told it to save.  Thinking back, I should
> have realized that wouldn't work.  Netscape was obviously confused about
> something.  Anyway, I redownloaded it with IE and it is working fine.
> 
> Go fig.  I checked the netscape file-types registery, and nothing
> obvious is amiss.  There is no .dll file-type registered that I can
> see.  Can anyone else duplicate this problem or is my computer just very
> "special?"  ;}  Nothing will surprise me at this point.
> 
> Anyway, thanks for the comments and advice, guys.
> 
> Steven
> 

Confirmed.

I was suffering from the same problem (including an urgent need for
better speed - it was eating 50% CPU!) and downloading with MSIE
fixed it (same symptoms of Netscape opening it as a text file).

Thanks for the solution.


-- 
Beni Cherniavsky <cben at crosswinds.net>
                 (also scben at t2,cben at tx in Technion)

  S.O.S   My country, Israel, is on fire.
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