How to play MP3,WAV,OGG,FLAC,MP4,M4A ?

[Bong.Da.City]

I want to a non-GUI application play on the background ( not from a player ). So with this command

canberra-gtk-play -f /home/babulas/Desktop/1.ogg

canberra-gtk-play -f /home/babulas/Desktop/1.ogg

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i can play only ogg and wav files... Is there any way so i can play all the audio types i mention before ( MP3,WAV,OGG,FLAC,MP4,M4A ) ? I have heard about SDL Libraries but for QtAudioOutput as well... What do you suggest to me and please tell me how to do it... Thanx anyway..!

[ChrisW67]

Clearly, nothing in Qt has much to do with the GTK application or SDL you refer to in the post. Read the Phonon Overview in Assistant and judge for yourself whether Qt can be used to do what you want. You will want to install the relevant GStreamer modules on your Linux machine to support other formats. On Windows I assume you get access to whatever can be played by the codecs installed on the system.

[Bong.Da.City]

Ok i had read the phonon review.. But nowhere it says the exact function to open those audio files... Could anybody just tell me what libraries should i download and how to make all this work? :/

[wysota]

I have a suggestion... Install every every possible package in your distribution. Then you'll know for sure that you have installed those required ones as well. And while it is all installing, please read Phonon Overview again, especially the "Playback" and "Installing Phonon" sections. If you have some specific questions afterwards, come back here and ask them.

[Bong.Da.City]

I have installed the libraries you know.... But i couldn't include phonon... AND.. i had seen the playback but because i cannot include Phonon it says that phonon is not a type name...

[Talei]

No You didn't fallow advice given to You by wysota, because there is IDENTICAL example explaining HOW TO do EXACTLY what You want in examples directory.
See qtDir/examples/phonon/qmusicplayer.

[hakermania]

I would also wanted to play a sound file in my app. It sounds very cool. Unfortunately the example doesn't work...

[Talei]

WinXp, qt 4.6.3, build it right now on debug, everything works (ogg, wav, mp4, ... ). So I don't know what doesn't work for You, mostly because You didn't say where the problem lies.
Phonon uses backends, for Win - DirectShow, for Lin GStreamer, MacS QuickTime. If Your application build successful and You don't see wideo, hear sound that means that You don't have appropriate codec in Your system. (use Phonon::ErrorState to determine what's wrong)
Most problem on windows came from the ffdshow codec installed. I personally use K-Lite codec pack, because they works pretty well with phonon/wmp.

[Bong.Da.City]

Think that hakermania and me have Unix as i can see from his logo...

[hakermania]

@Bong.Da.City search synaptic for phonon and in the quixk search type library. install all the packages except for them that say perl.

@public Ok, I installed the proper packages and now it compiled fine, but it doesn't play MP3. It does play WAV and OGG properly but it cannot play MP3......

[tbscope]

Most media formats are NOT free.
If you have OpenSuse for example, NON of these (the non free ones I mean) will play, even with everything correctly installed.

You just miss the necessary codecs.
On how to install those, check google, or your distro help channels.