[Vorbis] Vorbis Players for Windows

[Michael Smith]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:29:46 +0100, Daniel Schregenberger <npfdd at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've recently put a few of my tracks online (http://livenraw.npfdd.ch/
> for those interested; it's a solo-rock-performance by me) and of course
> I've used Vorbis for this.
> Now I had several reports on the topic "How do I play these ogg-things
> on Windows?". I've linked to http://www.vorbis.com/ but apparently this
> is not easy enough.
> One of my friends even told me he tried a couple of players from the
> Software page but had no success. Not with media-player or Winamp2. And
> he's definately more into computers than the average user.
> 
> No my question is: isn't there a simpler way to explain these people how
> to get Vorbis running on their computer?
> What page do you refer them to?

The Wiki page for software players is probably the best/easiest place
to give them a wide selection (though for my part, I typically point
users directly to specific players, such as winamp).

> 
> The important part here is "simple". The best would probably be a very
> easy integration into MS media-player, but I've been reported trouble
> with the DS-Filters and they seem pretty outdated to me too.

Which DS filters have you tried? The only ones we'd recommend
(http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/) have a release only just over a
month old - hardly 'outdated'. These should work very well and
reliably - if you have any problems with them, please let us know.

For users that like the MS media player (I don't claim to understand
why, but some people apparently do! :-), this is probably the
simplest/easiest solution.

I guess the only thing we could do to make it simpler for users would
be to provide an exe download (currently, they're zip files containing
a setup.exe and a couple of other files. Since many versions of
windows don't come with zip software, this doesn't seem ideal for
ultimate-user-friendliness).

Mike



Mike