OGG Files not showing in library

Hi,

Sorry if this has been asked before but I've been trawling through th
forums and can't find an answer.

I've got Media Player 11.0.6000.6344 and am running Vista. I can pla

zachd
Thu May 01 01:42:53 PDT 2008


This is a bug or limitation in your OGG filter. Your OGG filter did not
make the registry entries they need to make to have the files show up in the
player properly. It would take them maybe thirty minutes to do that, and
only they are in a position to do that.

On the plus side, this is pretty clearly documented on MSDN.microsoft.com ,
so it should be trivial for them to add this feature when you ask them.

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> Hi,
>
> Sorry if this has been asked before but I've been trawling through the
> forums and can't find an answer.
>
> I've got Media Player 11.0.6000.6344 and am running Vista. I can play
> ogg files fine but when I try and update the library it does not add
> the ogg files I have into it.
>
> Any help much appreciated
>
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Swifty
Sun May 11 05:24:42 PDT 2008

zachd [MSFT] wrote:
>
> This is a bug or limitation in your OGG filter. Your OGG filter did not
> make the registry entries they need to make to have the files show up in
> the player properly. It would take them maybe thirty minutes to do
> that, and only they are in a position to do that.

If this is all down to registry entries then it should be fairly
straightforward to fix up using regedit. I've tried, but not succeeded.

If anyone else has found the touchstone, (in my case to get .oga Ogg
Vorbis files added to a WMP11 library) then I'd be most grateful to see
a reg file of the necessary changes.

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zachd
Sun May 11 21:02:47 PDT 2008


I've posted it up repeatedly. Doing so again would again prove that my
supplying this information is a useless way to propagate this information
versus having the OGG/OGA filter provider actually put that information into
the registry.

The MSDN page they need is here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb262659(VS.85).aspx
It's pretty trivial. It would continue to be sad if everybody kept doing
this themselves versus asking the plug-in/filter provider to add that to
their registration. =)

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"Swifty" <Steve.J.Swift@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> zachd [MSFT] wrote:
>>
>> This is a bug or limitation in your OGG filter. Your OGG filter did not
>> make the registry entries they need to make to have the files show up in
>> the player properly. It would take them maybe thirty minutes to do that,
>> and only they are in a position to do that.
>
> If this is all down to registry entries then it should be fairly
> straightforward to fix up using regedit. I've tried, but not succeeded.
>
> If anyone else has found the touchstone, (in my case to get .oga Ogg
> Vorbis files added to a WMP11 library) then I'd be most grateful to see a
> reg file of the necessary changes.
>
> --
> Steve Swift
> http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
> http://www.ringers.org.uk

Swifty
Mon May 12 13:29:56 PDT 2008

zachd [MSFT] wrote:
> I've posted it up repeatedly. Doing so again would again prove that my
> supplying this information is a useless way to propagate this information
> versus having the OGG/OGA filter provider actually put that information into
> the registry.

Precisely. I followed your instructions last time around and the result
was that it didn't work, obviously because I made a mistake.

Which is why I was fishing for a .reg file, which would be less open to
error.

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zachd
Mon May 12 17:47:58 PDT 2008


Hm. Since you started out a new thread, I lost the context of that old
thread. I'd strongly suspect that searching for "OGA AUDIO PERCEIVEDTYPE"
would find this data.

I would also suggest that you asking here is a waste of time for everyone
else using that OGG filter, and that asking the *filter provider* to add
this support and then having them inquire here if they had questions would
be such a more effective use of time for all involved. Imagine you and
others never having to think about this again. =D

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"Swifty" <Steve.J.Swift@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> zachd [MSFT] wrote:
>> I've posted it up repeatedly. Doing so again would again prove that my
>> supplying this information is a useless way to propagate this information
>> versus having the OGG/OGA filter provider actually put that information
>> into the registry.
>
> Precisely. I followed your instructions last time around and the result
> was that it didn't work, obviously because I made a mistake.
>
> Which is why I was fishing for a .reg file, which would be less open to
> error.
>
> --
> Steve Swift
> http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
> http://www.ringers.org.uk

Swifty
Wed May 14 13:42:30 PDT 2008

> The MSDN page they need is here:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb262659(VS.85).aspx
> It's pretty trivial. It would continue to be sad if everybody kept doing
> this themselves versus asking the plug-in/filter provider to add that to
> their registration. =)

I've had the entries specified in that article in my registry for
several months, but that didn't cause WMP11 to accept .oga files for
inclusion in its database.

However, the search string you suggested in a later post took me to
http://deadbeef.narod.ru/faq/files/oggwmp.reg which seems to have fixed
the problem. It adds about 30 values and 8 keys, and I decided to do it
manually rather than just applying the REG file (just so I could see if
I'd be overwriting anything interesting. As it happened, I was. Nero
seems to have registered an interest in oga files; presumably their
media player.

I've probably picked up flac support as a side-effect.

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zachd
Wed May 21 18:43:03 PDT 2008


You're in business, now we only have to worry about every other user of that
OGA filter and then we're good. ;-)

Good work, though. =)

-Zach
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"Swifty" <Steve.J.Swift@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> The MSDN page they need is here:
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb262659(VS.85).aspx
>> It's pretty trivial. It would continue to be sad if everybody kept doing
>> this themselves versus asking the plug-in/filter provider to add that to
>> their registration. =)
>
> I've had the entries specified in that article in my registry for several
> months, but that didn't cause WMP11 to accept .oga files for inclusion in
> its database.
>
> However, the search string you suggested in a later post took me to
> http://deadbeef.narod.ru/faq/files/oggwmp.reg which seems to have fixed
> the problem. It adds about 30 values and 8 keys, and I decided to do it
> manually rather than just applying the REG file (just so I could see if
> I'd be overwriting anything interesting. As it happened, I was. Nero seems
> to have registered an interest in oga files; presumably their media
> player.
>
> I've probably picked up flac support as a side-effect.
>
> --
> Steve Swift
> http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
> http://www.ringers.org.uk