Accessing flac and movie-plugin

Help & Support
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With the decision to use flac now I noticed some differences between that format and MP3 when working with DO.

  1. First flac didn't work in DO, but then added extension to movie-plugin. Why is it required to play flac (and not Active-X)?
  2. When editing tags and have flac open in preview, I can't save the tags ("file in use"-message). With mp3 there's no problem and it's sure a plugin-issue. How to fix that?
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  1. That's not really by design. Opus doesn't have a built-in FLAC player (nor a built-in MP3 player) but the movie plugin happens to play it because the audio/video APIs it uses, and the codecs on your machine, make it work. Using the ActiveX plugin is probably better, assuming one of the viewers in there can handle it.

  2. That's probably due to whatever is playing the file locking it for exclusive access, rather than something Opus is doing differently for one file format vs another.

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How to get it work with Active-X?

The flac is just played by DO. When editing tags I always have metapanel and previewpane open and on selection will be played. Tags will be updated while previewing, Flac is locked (not opened elsewhere).

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[quote="Sasa"]How to get it work with Active-X?

The flac is just played by DO. When editing tags I always have metapanel and previewpane open and on selection it will be played. Tags will be updated while previewing MP3, but Flac is locked (not opened elsewhere).[/quote]

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The viewer is presumably locking the FLAC file. (More specifically, the FLAC demuxer DLL which the DirectShow API is using to read data out of the FLAC file is presumably locking the file.)

As for ActiveX, I am not sure which viewers handle FLAC off the top of my head, but I would expect Windows Media Player to work with it if it is already working with the Opus movie player. Either the preview handler or via Generic ActiveX. (Whether you get different results in terms of locking, is another story. You'll have to try it. You may need to close the preview pane to modify FLAC tags, or undo what was done to make FLAC files play in it.)

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Hm, so need to do some testing then...

BTW since I've added extension .flac to the movie-plugin, wave-files will be previewed but not played. I had to add .wav too to movie-plugin. What's wrong?

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That was not caused by you adding .flac to the movie plugin.

Try disabling the "wav waveform visualisation plugin" instead, or disable the option for it to affect the viewer:

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Got it Leo! :slight_smile:

I just needed to add ".flac" to active-x-plugin and could deactivate movie-plugin (shouldn't flac not be included per default in DO?). As temp file is used also saving tags etc. works.

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Windows 10 is the first version of Windows where that would actually work, since no earlier versions had built-in FLAC support.

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Didn't know that (never used flac before).