Converting wav to ogg and mp3 using Konqueror

solar1951

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Friday, October 7th 2005, 4:31pm

mandrake 10.1, KDE 3.2.3
I want to use Konqueror to compress some *wav to *ogg or *mp3 and in the "right mouse click" menu there are the two options.
However trying to do either doesn't work.
ogg just doesn't start at all and mp3 says it cant find lame
I can load the wav file into audacity and then export as either mp3 or ogg so I know the encoders are working.
why not in konqueror ?

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seb

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Saturday, October 8th 2005, 3:53pm

Audacity doesn't use the lame executable, but rather the library file, libmp3lame.so.

From console, type `which lame`, to see if it is in your path. If no results are shown, locate the file, and add the directory to your path. Failing that, maybe you don't have the actual executable installed

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anda_skoa

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Saturday, October 8th 2005, 3:56pm

My guess is that this is either some kind of plugin or, more likely, actions added by a program through Konqueror's service menu architecture.

The service menu definitions are quite simple text files having a .desktop extension and can be found in a Konqueror data directory in a subdirectory called "servicemenus"

The Konqueror data directory is one of the directories listed in
#> kde-config --path data
having konqueror/ appended to the path.

Very likely a command listed in the respective file is not installed or not configured properly.

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solar1951

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Saturday, October 8th 2005, 9:18pm

Thanks for the information.
The lame executable is found in usr/bin.
When I type in kde-config --path data I get the following
/home/bill/.kde/share/apps/:/usr/share/apps/

In usr/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus there are the lame-encode and lame-decode desktop.
The last line of the lame encode file is
Exec=lame %f `echo %f | sed ' s/\\\\\\\\.wav$$//'`.mp3

Do I need to change this last line ? to point to the usr/bin directory ?

Any help greatly appreciated.

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anda_skoa

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Saturday, October 8th 2005, 11:18pm

You can try using the full path, i.e. /usr/bin/lame

I am actually not sure that this kind of command chaining is supported in the Exec field.

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solar1951

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Monday, October 10th 2005, 4:10pm

Well, that didn't work - just said it couldn't find the file.
I can do it in k3b so that will have to do for now.

Thanks for trying to help,

Cheers

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patpi

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Monday, October 10th 2005, 7:46pm

RE: Converting wav to ogg and mp3 using Konqueror

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Originally posted by solar1951
I want to use Konqueror to compress some *wav to *ogg or *mp3 and in the "right mouse click" menu there are the two options.
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What should I do to have this options in my Konq.? Maybe It would work for me, what should I install. Where are options for this?

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solar1951

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Wednesday, October 12th 2005, 7:14pm

Hi Patpi,

I dont know where these options came from its just they were there after I installed lame from the mandrake rpm's

Sorry I cant help any more

Cheers

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