sound in suse 10

[iamthestar]

am not able to play mp3 and .DAT files in suse linux 10, its saying it is AVI file not recognised, i have installed RealPlayer 10, winamp for linux and xmms, but not able to play mp3 and .dat files, please help

[Andrey Deryugin]

Hello,

Have you installed drivers for your sound card?

Try this HOWTO - http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO/

Regards,
Andrey

[Rob Buxton]

You've probably progressed by now. But Xine is restricted in the download version of suse as regards mp3's.

See:
http://spinink.net/suse-for-windows-users/

for a solution.
mplayer plays them without modication.
I've no idea about the DAT Files.

[Stuart Browne]

DAT files are MPEG files from VCD's.