The issue is the one many have had and will likely continue to arise in the future. Missing codecs - on linux no matter how I look at the result of the untar of the tar.xz file in John van Sickle codec page, there is no need nor no way to untar yet a second time around.
Of course the ffmpeg file that is placed in the Codec directory does not solve the issue of missing codec.
Call me stupid, that’s fine, but I have tried to install this codec on and off for the past year and half and with each day passing, I feel just a little bit more, yes say it, stupid. But stupid is not useless, can anyone help this poor sole get connected to Internet radio station and all thos flashing lights before I go.
Sincerely,
Robert
You don’t say which Linux distribution you are using. The double unpacking was only necessary in old distributions before the tar command supported the xz format automatically.
If it’s reasonably current, you can probably doubleclick the file and the archive manager GUI app should open, where you can drag it out with the mouse or use the extract command in the menu.
In the terminal it probably works simply with
tar -xf file.tar.xz
If it doesn’t, you may have to install the xz-utils package, but I don’t recall that I had to on Ubuntu two years ago. If you have to, in Ubuntu in the terminal it’s
sudo apt install xz-utils
Then run the tar -xf file.tar.xz again.
After the extraction you should have a folder with a bunch of stuff in it that you don’t need except the one ffmpeg file that is somewhere in there
Sure, he has a ROCK (the only reason one needs to install the codecs) but he wrote
on linux no matter how I look at the result of the untar of the tar.xz file in John van Sickle codec page, there is no need nor no way to untar yet a second time around.
so I understood that his desktop where he extracts the file is a Linux machine. Maybe a misunderstanding but no other desktop OS was mentioned…
Well I’m answering my own post now.
I have finally found in the seams of the support folder at Roon a little piece of help for LINUX users, those for whom all of the data written on your knowledge base, does not apply. There are fundamental differences between MS iOS and Linux and in this case the writings on the wall do not work on Linux.
Here’s what I found and which worked on first attempt.
You will have to this as root (or with sudo in this case) from a terminal:
Mount the ROCK data folder to /mnt/ on your computer sudo mount -t cifs //rock/Data -o vers=1.0 /mnt/
Maybe you will have to change the directory where your extracted file is first, e.g. cd /home/user/Downloads)
Copy your ffmpeg file to the mounted ROCK folder sudo cp ffmpeg /mnt/Codecs
After that a reboot can not hurt.
I would suggest you update your knowledge base to show this info to Linux user such as I
That wasn’t what you wrote as the question, which seemed to be about the extracting of the tar.xz file and not about accessing the ROCK data directory, but glad you solved it, if a little more complicated than necessary.
(Any modern Linux would have a “Network” in the GUI file manager location sidebar that would list the ROCK and clicking there would mount it and navigate there, just like in Windows and Mac. And if done on the terminal, the mount command does not need vers=1.0 because ROCK supports current SMB versions)