Re: Need help with sound in 3.1
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 04:53, Chris Cheney wrote: arts and kdelibs are now compiled for all the arches they are likely to get compiled for in the near future. So if you want you can upload the new xmmsarts version now. Done (version 0.4-24), this morning (about 4 hours ago). WorksForMe. :-) -- Chris Boyle - http://people.debian.org/~cmb/ GPG: B7D86E0F, MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ: 24151961, AIM: kerneloops, Yahoo: kerneloops, IRC: cmb on freenode.net
Re: Need help with sound in 3.1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 7. Februar 2003 18:51 schrieb Svein Ove Aas: The driver for your soundcard is single-open, and can therefore only be used by one program at a time. Either tell xmms and mplayer to use arts for sound output, start them via artsdsp or install a better driver. I would not recommend using aRts with mplayer. Mplayer is written for synchronization and aRts messes it all up: it just has a too big delay and the buffer simply rips control from mplayer. No good idea at all. Arts would make sense when startet like a normal daemon (startup script) as root with realtime, no buffer and a device file or something equivalent to access it (no need to program _for_ it). The problem with linux is that there is absolutely no standard way to do this. Alsa in 2.6 will make the situation better but the mixer daemon (and nothing else aRts is good for) is neither standard (aRts, esd, nas,...) nor does it even has a standard API. AFAIK, all Alsa-drivers do mixing in the kernel. Alsa does no mixing at all except the cases where the hardware itself support multiple channels. HS - -- Mein GPG-Key ist auf meiner Homepage verfügbar: http://www.hendrik-sattler.de oder über pgp.net PingoS - Linux-User helfen Schulen: http://www.pingos.schulnetz.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Rrwxzvr6q9zCwcERAveIAJ9NjY8X4rdPPrmEwrC0e/5WVAsLhACglhZv CH5MGi7uROysI1GIw6cQm10= =d0aK -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Need help with sound in 3.1
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Need help with sound in 3.1
Hello everyone, I am having some sound problems with kde 3.1. When I try to play some mp3's using xmms, xmms complains that it couldn't open the audio. Also, when I try to play movies (dvd or divx) using mplayer, I also get no sound. However kaboodle will play the same divx movies find with sound. Would someone please let me know what I need to change in kde to allow these programs to have sound. Thanks, Chris
Re: Need help with sound in 3.1
On Friday 07 February 2003 10:06 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having some sound problems with kde 3.1. When I try to play some mp3's using xmms, xmms complains that it couldn't open the audio. Also, when I try to play movies (dvd or divx) using mplayer, I also get no sound. However kaboodle will play the same divx movies find with sound. Would someone please let me know what I need to change in kde to allow these programs to have sound. You don't _necessarily_ need to change anything in KDE; the problem is that KDE's sound server, arts, is hogging /dev/dsp. Solution 1: for XMMS, use the xmms-arts plugin available at http://www.xmms.org/plugins_output.html; to enable it, go to Preferences - Audio I/O Plugins and for the Output Plugin select aRts Driver once you have installed it. For mplayer, in ~/.mplayer/config, write '-ao arts'. Note that I think you may need to specifically mplayer for arts support, but it's been a while since I've compiled mplayer. Solution 2: if that sounds like too much work, go to Control Panel - Sound - Sound System and change the value for Autosuspend if idle for: value to something smaller, like 10 seconds. Note that the problem with this solution is that any KDE sound event will be stalled until after XMMS or mplayer quits. So if you're listening to some music but have set up KMail to beep whenever you have new mail, you won't get any notification until you close XMMS. In my opinion it's better to make XMMS and mplayer play nice with arts, rather than the other way around. :Peter -- Oh what a tangled web they weave who try a new word to conceive!
Re: Need help with sound in 3.1
On Friday 07 February 2003 17:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I am having some sound problems with kde 3.1. When I try to play some mp3's using xmms, xmms complains that it couldn't open the audio. Also, when I try to play movies (dvd or divx) using mplayer, I also get no sound. However kaboodle will play the same divx movies find with sound. Would someone please let me know what I need to change in kde to allow these programs to have sound. you have a non full duplex soundcard and have arts running. Either stick to KDE multimedia apps, deactivate arts and only use nonKDE multimedia apps or try to give the other apps arts plugns. max
Re: Need help with sound in 3.1
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 16:28, Peter Clark wrote: xmms-arts plugin available at http://www.xmms.org/plugins_output.html; to enable it, go to Preferences - Audio I/O Plugins and for the Output Plugin select aRts Driver once you have installed it. For mplayer, in Also available packaged by me, though the version in unstable is for KDE2, at least until the KDE3 grand master plan is sorted out and I've picked a sensible time to upload... you can get a KDE3 version before then from http://people.debian.org/~cmb/xmmsarts/ Hope this helps, -- Chris Boyle - http://people.debian.org/~cmb/ GPG: B7D86E0F, MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ: 24151961, AIM: kerneloops, Yahoo: kerneloops, IRC: cmb on openprojects.net
Re: Need help with sound in 3.1
fre, 2003-02-07 kl. 17:06 skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello everyone, I am having some sound problems with kde 3.1. When I try to play some mp3's using xmms, xmms complains that it couldn't open the audio. Also, when I try to play movies (dvd or divx) using mplayer, I also get no sound. However kaboodle will play the same divx movies find with sound. Would someone please let me know what I need to change in kde to allow these programs to have sound. The driver for your soundcard is single-open, and can therefore only be used by one program at a time. Either tell xmms and mplayer to use arts for sound output, start them via artsdsp or install a better driver. AFAIK, all Alsa-drivers do mixing in the kernel.
Re: Need help with sound in 3.1
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 06:51:45PM +0100, Svein Ove Aas wrote: The driver for your soundcard is single-open, and can therefore only be used by one program at a time. Either tell xmms and mplayer to use arts for sound output, start them via artsdsp or install a better driver. AFAIK, all Alsa-drivers do mixing in the kernel. Nope, ALSA drivers don't do mixing in the kernel at least as far as I know. I just tested my sound card (C-Media 8738) which seems to only support single-open in ALSA as well. :\ Also, I am pretty sure full duplex doesn't have anything to do with this problem, but I may be wrong. Chris
