Newbe help for VBOXD
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Hi guys,

I seem to have slept under a stone for years because I bought my first Xbox two month ago. I love it. I love XBMC.

My problem is, that I am new to XBMC and also new to Python. I just started to script, because I really want that application (read below). My question is, is there a way to play *.au-files (SUN unix sound format) under XBMC. If not is there a way to convert them? Under Linux I know the application "sox". But I do not know enough about XBMC.

So what am I doing. I have a (software) voice box running under Linux. The application is called "vbox" for isdn4linux. There is a deamon on my linux server, that I can ask for infos like who has left a message, the length and which number was called (I have defined three voice boxes for three lines actually).

The deamon sends even the recorded message itself, if I ask for it. I save it into a file. The format is SUN au-format. And XBMC does not recognise it.

I never program in Python before but I need that app really hard. My script is ugly but it works basically. It displays the voice boxes and the recorded messages. Selectivly playing them and deleting them would be a future enhancement. But playing au-files seems to be a problem.
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mamba Wrote:My question is, is there a way to play *.au-files (SUN unix sound format) under XBMC.
Not curretly, no. There is no codec for PAPlayer nor support for it in FFmpeg (PAPlayer first uses the codec DLL files for it, if there are no DLL codec for that specific codec it then fall-back to DVPlayer which is based on FFmpeg).
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=XBMC_Feature...r_formats:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Codec_and_Format_requests
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=PAPlayer
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=DVDPlayer

Feel free to code and submit a patch for a PAPlayer codec (easier then trying to get a patch accepted by FFmpeg):
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Development_Notes
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