Bug 116335

Yes, this is intentional, we cannot change it.

How about adding a README.SUSE that this is a crippled version (wording would 
probably be more like: This version was built without mp3 support. Thus games 
that come with mp3 encoded speech/sound will seem to be faulty.) 

I'll think about this. Thanks for the bugreport. 

It should be possible to convert the FOTAQ data into .ogg/.flac instead  
of .mp3 format with "queenrebuild" (shipped since SUSE 10.0). Actually it  
is *not*. :-( 
  
  # /usr/games/queenrebuild --ogg queen.1c  
  Unknown/unsupported FOTAQ version! 
 
I'll contact the scummvm team about this. I couldn't hear any difference  
after compiling scummvm with mad support. Could you? 
 
I'll add a README.SUSE about this problem. 
 

Ah, it's the speech output, when guys are talking to each other. 

I've added the following README.SUSE: 
 
FAQ 
--- 
 
Q: When using the CD Version of "Flight of the Amazon Queen" (which 
   includes speech output in MP3 format) I get the following warning: 
   "Using MP3 compressed datafile, but MP3 support not compiled in!" 
A: scummvm on SUSE is compiled without MAD (MP3) support. This is 
   intentional and we can't change this. It should be possible to 
   convert the FOTAQ data into .ogg/.flac instead of .mp3 format 
   with "queenrebuild" (shipped since SUSE 10.0). Actually it is 
   *not*. :-(  
   
     # /usr/games/queenrebuild --ogg queen.1c   
     Unknown/unsupported FOTAQ version! 
  
   SUSE reported this problem to the scummvm developer team 
 
     http://www.scummv.org --> Bug Tracking --> Request ID 1287736 
 

Some results. I've updated the README therefore. I'll try to discuss this 
issue on the scummvm-devel list.

FAQ
---

Q: When using the CD Version of "Flight of the Amazon Queen" (which
   includes speech output in MP3 format) I get the following warning:
   "Using MP3 compressed datafile, but MP3 support not compiled in!"
A: scummvm on SUSE is compiled without MAD (MP3) support. This is
   intentional and we can't change this. It should be possible to
   convert the FOTAQ data into ogg/flac instead of mp3 format
   with "queenrebuild" (shipped since SUSE 10.0). But this does
   *not* work with the FOTAQ version you can can currently download
   from the scummvm website.
  
     # /usr/games/queenrebuild --ogg queen.1c  
     Unknown/unsupported FOTAQ version!
 
   SUSE reported this problem to the scummvm developer team. They
   told us that this tool only supports official versions (not yet
   converted data) of FOTAQ. Unfortunately the scummvm project
   suffers from restricted project file space and therefore cannot
   provide an ogg version of FOTAQ. We're working on a solution for
   the future. For now you need to download an official CD version
   of FOTAQ (not converted yet data) - FOTAQ has been freewared -
   and convert it to ogg format with "queenrebuild" yourself. Start
   your favorite search engine and use 

     "Flight of the Amazon Queen" download

   as search string. The size should be much more than 35 MB. 
   Otherwise you'll likely download an already MP3 converted
   version again, which won't help you.

Andreas, would it be possible to host the full CD Version of FOTAQ or at least
an ogg compressed version (the latter probably about 40 MB, don't know the size
of the full version)? The license is the same as the FOTAQ package is. One
possible location would be ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/sndirsch, probably not
the best.

40 MB is fine - and it could be added as an ftp only package if desired (so part
of the ftp distribution tree). 

But full CD is too much...

The uncompressed version is about 90MB (with bzip2), the ogg version (with
default quality) about 65 MB (with bzip2). Probably the ogg version could be
optimized in size with lowering the quality or similar. This still needs to be
investigated.

What I wanted to ask was if SUSE can host the file(s) for download, i.e. when
you go to the download site of the scummvm project 
(http://www.scummvm.org/downloads.php) and use the download link for the ogg CD 
version and/or full CD version of FOTAQ you download it from a SUSE server
(probably our ftp server).

Of course I can also make a package of it for the next SUSE release. But this is
probably only something for the ftp version.

Meanwhile you can download the uncompressed version from the scummvm website. It
is linked to 

  http://www.lysator.liu.se/~zino/scummvm/queen/queen.1.bz2

This is also documented in the README.SUSE on 10.0-final. Therefore I close this
now as fixed.

Meanwhile you can download the uncompressed version from the scummvm website. It
is linked to 

  http://www.lysator.liu.se/~zino/scummvm/queen/queen.1.bz2

This is also documented in the README.SUSE on 10.0-final. Therefore I close this
now as fixed.