Re: sound / video problem

2010-07-07 Thread Barry
Barry wrote: What am I missing?? I have an iso of a dvd on my hd. mplayer and vlc both play the iso but without sound. However if I mount the iso the vob files all play correctly. GGR! Other iso files play ok in mplayer, vlc requires the chanel to be selected. Suggestions

Re: sound / video problem

2010-07-02 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On 3 July 2010 10:10, Barry wrote: > [r...@localhost barry]$ mplayer /home/barry/Videos/CommutingByCable.iso > MPlayer SVN-1.rc2.23.r28791.2mdv2009.1-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team Quite an old version of mplayer. This is what the current version says. MPlayer SVN-r30554-4.4.2 (C) 2000-2010

Re: sound / video problem

2010-07-02 Thread Barry
Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Barry wrote: Barry wrote: What am I missing?? I have an iso of a dvd on my hd. mplayer and vlc both play the iso but without sound. However if I mount the iso the vob files all play correctly. GGR! Other iso files play ok in

Re: sound / video problem

2010-07-02 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Barry wrote: > Barry wrote: >> >> What am I missing?? >> >> I have an iso of a dvd on my hd. >> >> mplayer and vlc both play the iso but without sound. However if I mount >> the iso the vob files all play correctl

Re: sound / video problem

2010-07-02 Thread Barry
Barry wrote: What am I missing?? I have an iso of a dvd on my hd. mplayer and vlc both play the iso but without sound. However if I mount the iso the vob files all play correctly. GGR! Other iso files play ok in mplayer, vlc requires the chanel to be selected. Suggestions

Re: Sound recording on linux

2010-05-23 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Don Robertson wrote: > On 23/05/10 22:01, Andrew Errington wrote: >> >> On Sun, 23 May 2010 18:31:56 Julian Visch wrote: >> >>> >>> Have a huge audio tape collection and think it is high time I started >>> converting them into some form of digital format while tape

Re: Sound recording on linux

2010-05-23 Thread Don Robertson
On 23/05/10 22:01, Andrew Errington wrote: On Sun, 23 May 2010 18:31:56 Julian Visch wrote: Have a huge audio tape collection and think it is high time I started converting them into some form of digital format while tape decks still exist. What would people recommend, SoundStudio seems to

Re: Sound recording on linux

2010-05-23 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
t program called shorten which allows you to specify the lossyness, or rather the number of bits to keep. Given that your original is some cruddy MC tape, you won't have 16bit anyway. Many sound cards are pretty shocking too, I've seen ground not being digitised to 0. No idea how many bits

Re: Sound recording on linux

2010-05-23 Thread Andrew Errington
On Sun, 23 May 2010 18:31:56 Julian Visch wrote: > Have a huge audio tape collection and think it is high time I started > converting them into some form of digital format while tape decks still > exist. What would people recommend, SoundStudio seems to be able > to record but these files will be

Re: Capturing sound from Linux apps (ALSA info)

2008-03-27 Thread Aidan Gauland
Ok, thanks! I got Audacity, and tried that, and it works perfectly (well..perfectly for someone who's not an audio guru :)). Vik Olliver wrote: On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 21:34 +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote: And about what Vik said: Can audacity do this on it own? If you plug the line out into line

Re: Capturing sound from Linux apps (ALSA info)

2008-03-17 Thread Vik Olliver
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 21:34 +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote: > And about what Vik said: Can audacity do this on it own? If you plug the line out into line in, yes :) Vik :v)

Re: Capturing sound from Linux apps (ALSA info)

2008-03-17 Thread Aidan Gauland
1 & 2. I want to capture sound from ZSNES, which lets you record key-presses and play it back almost like a movie, so for this it doesn't matter if I can hear the sound while capturing it to a file. 3. No, I don't think it gives the user control over what sound device to use.

Re: Capturing sound from Linux apps (ALSA info)

2008-03-15 Thread Eliot Blennerhassett
Aidan Gauland wrote: > Hello (again), > > Is there a way to capture the audio output from a running program on > Linux? I've heard of "jack", but the program I want to capture the > sound from, doesn't use that. Maybe there's some ALSA plug-in I could

Re: Capturing sound from Linux apps

2008-03-15 Thread Vik Olliver
On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 12:01 +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote: > Is there a way to capture the audio output from a running program > on > Linux? I've heard of "jack", but the program I want to capture the > sound from, doesn't use that. Maybe there's some ALSA p

Capturing sound from Linux apps

2008-03-15 Thread Aidan Gauland
Hello (again), Is there a way to capture the audio output from a running program on Linux? I've heard of "jack", but the program I want to capture the sound from, doesn't use that. Maybe there's some ALSA plug-in I could use? Thanks, Aidan

Re: annoying sound

2007-07-17 Thread Chris AKA personthingy
displaying what you are listeng to, should you be critically low on resourses. On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Zane Gilmore wrote: I went to listen to my (legal) music just now and discovered that there a sound recurring in a reasonably random way. It sounds like a dripping tap and

Re: annoying sound

2007-07-17 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
gt; hundreds of megs of RAM. When it finished so did the dripping tap... spooky Not spooky, just an insufficient sound implementation in Linux which doesn't prioritise sound enough. Playing sound is a real-time activity, database IO is not. My KDE startup sound is very stuttering because a bunch o

Re: annoying sound

2007-07-17 Thread Vik Olliver
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 16:54 +1200, Zane Gilmore wrote: > The script had nothing to do with the sound system it was just a > Python script. > > I don't have much of a clue what the hell it could have been... maybe > some sort of resource alert? > No, I think it might be the

Re: annoying sound

2007-07-17 Thread Wesley Parish
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 16:55, Brett Davidson wrote: > Zane Gilmore wrote: > > Nick Rout wrote: > >> On Tue, July 17, 2007 2:27 pm, Zane Gilmore wrote: > >>> I went to listen to my (legal) music just now and discovered that > >>> there a > >>>

Re: annoying sound

2007-07-16 Thread Kerry Mayes
overheating alert? On 17/07/07, Zane Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't have much of a clue what the hell it could have been... maybe some sort of resource alert? It was very irritating Zane

Re: annoying sound

2007-07-16 Thread Brett Davidson
Zane Gilmore wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, July 17, 2007 2:27 pm, Zane Gilmore wrote: I went to listen to my (legal) music just now and discovered that there a sound recurring in a reasonably random way. It sounds like a dripping tap and it happens at a random interval between approx 1

Re: annoying sound

2007-07-16 Thread Zane Gilmore
Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, July 17, 2007 2:27 pm, Zane Gilmore wrote: I went to listen to my (legal) music just now and discovered that there a sound recurring in a reasonably random way. It sounds like a dripping tap and it happens at a random interval between approx 1 second to about 10 seconds

Re: annoying sound

2007-07-16 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On 7/17/07, Zane Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I went to listen to my (legal) music just now and discovered that there a sound recurring in a reasonably random way. It sounds like a dripping tap and it happens at a random interval between approx 1 second to about 10 seconds. This

Re: annoying sound

2007-07-16 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, July 17, 2007 2:27 pm, Zane Gilmore wrote: > I went to listen to my (legal) music just now and discovered that there a > sound recurring in a reasonably random way. > It sounds like a dripping tap and it happens at a random interval between > approx 1 second to about > 10

Re: annoying sound

2007-07-16 Thread Zane Gilmore
Brett Davidson wrote: I am assuming that you've stopped playing the music and confirmed that it is your computer making the sound rather than a portend of an expensive plumbing bill? ;-) I assume that my co-workers would have mentioned some

Re: annoying sound

2007-07-16 Thread Brett Davidson
Zane Gilmore wrote: I went to listen to my (legal) music just now and discovered that there a sound recurring in a reasonably random way. It sounds like a dripping tap and it happens at a random interval between approx 1 second to about 10 seconds. This makes listening to music impossible

annoying sound

2007-07-16 Thread Zane Gilmore
I went to listen to my (legal) music just now and discovered that there a sound recurring in a reasonably random way. It sounds like a dripping tap and it happens at a random interval between approx 1 second to about 10 seconds. This makes listening to music impossible. Can anyone think of a

Re: no sound - browser plugins

2007-07-07 Thread Nick Rout
Nick Rout wrote: > OK, revision time. AFAIK from this thread: > > 1. there is no problem with the hardware or the alsa driver, as sound, > in general works. > > 2. the problem is in flash video (you mentioned youtube). What we don't > know is which browser you are usin

Re: no sound - browser plugins

2007-07-07 Thread Nick Rout
OK, revision time. AFAIK from this thread: 1. there is no problem with the hardware or the alsa driver, as sound, in general works. 2. the problem is in flash video (you mentioned youtube). What we don't know is which browser you are using, which flash plugin, nor whether other media wor

Re: no sound - browser plugins

2007-07-06 Thread Roger Searle
The board is an Asus M2N-E, it has 7.1 channel onboard audio. The motherboard manual says it is C-Media. It definitely works - well the usual green socket for sound and the microphone are fine. Sound quality isn't that bad either, certainly a noticeable step up from the previous board

Re: no sound - browser plugins

2007-07-06 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Sat 07 Jul 2007 18:04:02 NZST +1200, Roger Searle wrote: > this motherboard is onboard everything except graphics, but i'm failing > to spot what the sound is... i'm guessing it is SMBus by elimination. No, that's just what it says - an SMBus interface/controller. An

Re: no sound - browser plugins

2007-07-06 Thread Roger Searle
Robert Fisher wrote: On Friday 06 July 2007 6:41 am, Roger Searle wrote: Hi, kubuntu feisty. Sound generally works in that I can use amarok to play MP3s. Yet I have no sound trying to view something like a YouTube video in a player embedded in a web browser. And the "Test Sound"

Re: no sound - browser plugins

2007-07-06 Thread Roger Searle
Steve Holdoway wrote: lspci sould tell you what hardware is installed this motherboard is onboard everything except graphics, but i'm failing to spot what the sound is... i'm guessing it is SMBus by elimination. anyway, no added sound card. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lspci 00:0

Re: no sound - browser plugins

2007-07-05 Thread Steve Holdoway
I had problems on my home PC ( an old shuttle ) when I enabled the on-board sound, but also used a PCI sound card for the 'all round' experience (the sound card failed and all I ended up with was the bass channel). It got confused, and when I disabled the sound in the bios, all t

Re: no sound - browser plugins

2007-07-05 Thread Robert Fisher
On Friday 06 July 2007 6:41 am, Roger Searle wrote: > Hi, kubuntu feisty. Sound generally works in that I can use amarok to > play MP3s. Yet I have no sound trying to view something like a YouTube > video in a player embedded in a web browser. And the "Test Sound" > but

Re: no sound - browser plugins

2007-07-05 Thread Roger Searle
Nick Rout wrote: Roger Searle wrote: Hi, kubuntu feisty. Sound generally works in that I can use amarok to play MP3s. Yet I have no sound trying to view something like a YouTube video in a player embedded in a web browser. And the "Test Sound" button in System Settings doesn

Re: no sound - browser plugins

2007-07-05 Thread Nick Rout
Roger Searle wrote: Hi, kubuntu feisty. Sound generally works in that I can use amarok to play MP3s. Yet I have no sound trying to view something like a YouTube video in a player embedded in a web browser. And the "Test Sound" button in System Settings doesn't produce a

no sound - browser plugins

2007-07-05 Thread Roger Searle
Hi, kubuntu feisty. Sound generally works in that I can use amarok to play MP3s. Yet I have no sound trying to view something like a YouTube video in a player embedded in a web browser. And the "Test Sound" button in System Settings doesn't produce any sound. Audio device

Re: starting sound system

2006-10-05 Thread Steve Holdoway
Is sound enabled in the bios? Probably is if you can see it with lspci ( i've just checked on my home pc - nVidia2 - which has it disabled in favour of a sound card, and it's not visible ). I have never had any problems using the nVidia binary drivers, but have never used in 64 bit..

Re: starting sound system

2006-10-05 Thread Roger Searle
Nick Rout wrote: > On 10/5/2006, "Roger Searle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I am struggling to locate the correct drivers for this sound device. >> > > >> The nVidia site is not particularly helpful on this ocassion and >>

Re: starting sound system

2006-10-05 Thread Roger Searle
Ross Drummond wrote: > On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:09, Roger Searle wrote: > >> I am struggling to locate the correct drivers for this sound device. >> The nVidia site is not particularly helpful on this ocassion and >> googling has not ultimately helped. No doubt I'm l

Re: starting sound system

2006-10-05 Thread Nick Rout
On 10/5/2006, "Roger Searle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am struggling to locate the correct drivers for this sound device. >The nVidia site is not particularly helpful on this ocassion and >googling has not ultimately helped. No doubt I'm looking for the wrong

Re: starting sound system

2006-10-05 Thread Ross Drummond
On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:09, Roger Searle wrote: > I am struggling to locate the correct drivers for this sound device. > The nVidia site is not particularly helpful on this ocassion and > googling has not ultimately helped. No doubt I'm looking for the wrong > thing... > >

Re: starting sound system

2006-10-05 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> I am struggling to locate the correct drivers for this sound device. > The nVidia site is not particularly helpful on this ocassion and > googling has not ultimately helped. No doubt I'm looking for the wrong > thing... > > Can anyone point me to the right place? Th

Re: starting sound system

2006-10-05 Thread Roger Searle
I am struggling to locate the correct drivers for this sound device. The nVidia site is not particularly helpful on this ocassion and googling has not ultimately helped. No doubt I'm looking for the wrong thing... Can anyone point me to the right place? This is a SuSE 10.1 64bit insta

Re: starting sound system

2006-10-05 Thread Roger Searle
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: >> Hi, I have SuSE 10.1 64bit version running on this machine, the sound >> system is not functional. The volume icon in the system tray comes up >> with a line through it indicating mute is on, I can turn mute off and >> increase volume

Re: quoting Re: starting sound system

2006-10-04 Thread Robert Fisher
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 8:11 pm, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > No doubt true. What about spyware on your customers' boxes? Never had a problem as far as I know. > Is your CLUG > mailbox separate from your personal one? No. Rob

Re: quoting Re: starting sound system

2006-10-04 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> Using customers' computers is usually quicker than finding a live connection > and starting up the laptop (and getting through the proxy server etc. etc.) No doubt true. What about spyware on your customers' boxes? Is your CLUG mailbox separate from your personal one? > I apologise that my web

Re: quoting Re: starting sound system

2006-10-03 Thread Robert Fisher
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 10:54 am, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Private mailing on work time - oops... ;) Self employed and need to read business emails also. I am sure my boss will not mind. > > If you have your own laptop you're only up against the local net-Nazis, > otherwise, yep that's abou

Re: quoting Re: starting sound system

2006-10-03 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> >How else would you suggest someone like me, who visits up to 8 customers a d > ay, > > >read their mail at those customers' sites? Private mailing on work time - oops... ;) If you have your own laptop you're only up against the local net-Nazis, otherwise, yep that's about the only valid reaso

Re: quoting Re: starting sound system

2006-10-03 Thread Nick Rout
On 10/3/2006, "Robert Fisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed Oct 4 9:37 , Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: > >Why people use webmail (shudder) >>instead of a decent mail client beats me, but that's a different topic. > >How else would you suggest someone like me, who visi

Re: quoting Re: starting sound system

2006-10-03 Thread Nick Rout
On 10/3/2006, "Volker Kuhlmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > What's the user agent Nick? > >Chris: see mail headers. > >> But I think the extra \n is being added by smething else, because it doesn 't >> happen on mail not sent through the canterbury server. > >It also doesn't happen w

Re: quoting Re: starting sound system

2006-10-03 Thread Robert Fisher
On Wed Oct 4 9:37 , Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: Why people use webmail (shudder) >instead of a decent mail client beats me, but that's a different topic. How else would you suggest someone like me, who visits up to 8 customers a day, read their mail at those customers' sites? Ro

Re: quoting Re: starting sound system

2006-10-03 Thread Nick Rout
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 00:50, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Wednesday 04 October 2006 00:25, Robert J. C. Himmelmann wrote: > > As far as I can see, after every line there is an aditional blank line. > > (Maybe a \r\n interpreted as two newlines?) > > Examining a saved file using the od uti

Re: quoting Re: starting sound system

2006-10-03 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> > What's the user agent Nick? Chris: see mail headers. > But I think the extra \n is being added by smething else, because it doesn't > happen on mail not sent through the canterbury server. It also doesn't happen with any other MUA on (long guess) any list, so the blame stays with Ilohadings

Re: quoting Re: starting sound system

2006-10-03 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 00:25, Robert J. C. Himmelmann wrote: > As far as I can see, after every line there is an aditional blank line. > (Maybe a \r\n interpreted as two newlines?) Examining a saved file using the od utility with the -a option flag reveals a double \n ( new-line ) character

Re: quoting Re: starting sound system

2006-10-03 Thread Robert J. C. Himmelmann
As far as I can see, after every line there is an aditional blank line. (Maybe a \r\n interpreted as two newlines?) Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Hi Nick, you realise your quoting is now not only untrimmed, but also an empty line longer for each line of original text? Any chance of fixing that (prefe

Re: starting sound system

2006-10-02 Thread Gabriella Turek
> > > It is normal for audio device files to be owned by root user but also by > > some other group, eg audio. You then put any user that is allowed access > > to the sound system into the audio group. Changing the ownership > > manually is "the wrong way

Re: starting sound system

2006-10-02 Thread Nick Rout
On 10/2/2006, "Gabriella Turek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On my Red Hat system at my old job the audio device files were >owned by root for some reason, and did not have the right execute >permissions, hence no sound when I tried to play something. The annoying &

Re: starting sound system

2006-10-02 Thread Gabriella Turek
On my Red Hat system at my old job the audio device files were owned by root for some reason, and did not have the right execute permissions, hence no sound when I tried to play something. The annoying thing was that every time some system update happened, any fixes I made would be lost gaby

quoting Re: starting sound system

2006-10-02 Thread Nick Rout
On 10/2/2006, "Volker Kuhlmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Nick, > >you realise your quoting is now not only untrimmed, but also an empty >line longer for each line of original text? Any chance of fixing that >(preferably both)?? > >Volker > The extra lines must be something to do

Re: starting sound system

2006-10-02 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> Hi, I have SuSE 10.1 64bit version running on this machine, the sound > system is not functional. The volume icon in the system tray comes up > with a line through it indicating mute is on, I can turn mute off and > increase volume from zero to some level. It should save the c

quoting Re: starting sound system

2006-10-02 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
L PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >Hi, I have SuSE 10.1 64bit version running on this machine, the sound > > >system is not functional. The volume icon in the system tray comes up > > >with a line through it indicating mute is on, I can turn mute off and >

starting sound system

2006-10-02 Thread Roger Searle
Hi, I have SuSE 10.1 64bit version running on this machine, the sound system is not functional. The volume icon in the system tray comes up with a line through it indicating mute is on, I can turn mute off and increase volume from zero to some level. Going into Personal Settings (aka Control

Re: starting sound system

2006-10-02 Thread Robert Fisher
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 9:26 am, Roger Searle wrote: > Hi, I have SuSE 10.1 64bit version running on this machine, the sound > system is not functional. The volume icon in the system tray comes up > with a line through it indicating mute is on, I can turn mute off and > increase

Re: starting sound system

2006-10-02 Thread Nick Rout
On 10/2/2006, "Roger Searle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, I have SuSE 10.1 64bit version running on this machine, the sound >system is not functional. The volume icon in the system tray comes up >with a line through it indicating mute is on, I can turn mute off a

Re: Skype and sound settings

2006-09-14 Thread Roger Searle
ord > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix krecord > [I] media-sound/krecord > Available versions: 1.14 1.16 > Installed: 1.16 > Homepage:http://bytesex.org/krecord.html > Description: A KDE sound recorder. > > Then try to record

Re: Skype and sound settings

2006-09-14 Thread dave
gt; > Could somebody please help me set up my mic to work (with skype.) > > > > To be honest I do not even know how to check if the mic is working. > > You could load Krecord > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix krecord > [I] media-sound/krecord > Available versions:

Re: Skype and sound settings

2006-09-14 Thread Nick Rout
; > > > > Well I started my computer again and Skype worked but when I tried to make > > a > > second call it would not and my sound was gone again - all without changing > > any settings. > > > > The guy I spoke with (on Skype) said that Skype does not pl

Re: Skype and sound settings

2006-09-14 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Thursday 14 September 2006 18:12, Robert Fisher wrote: > Could somebody please help me set up my mic to work (with skype.) > > To be honest I do not even know how to check if the mic is working. You could load Krecord [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix krecord [I] media-sound/krecord

Re: Skype and sound settings

2006-09-14 Thread Phill Coxon
ond call it would not and my sound was gone again - all without changing > any settings. > > The guy I spoke with (on Skype) said that Skype does not play well with Linux > yet but he has heard that there is a new version out in the last week or so > which is better. Older versi

Re: Skype and sound settings

2006-09-14 Thread Edwin F
d not and my sound was gone again - all without changing any settings. Try running: artsdsp skype and see if that helps at all. ~ed.

Re: Skype and sound settings

2006-09-14 Thread Andy Leach
while now, no sound problems with it at all. I am also using KAMix (0.0.7). The only thing I can think of for your sound problem is either something else is clashing with it, or you don't have the mic capture set. Ny settings on the Capture tab are. Both dropdowns to 'Mic' and the

Re: Skype and sound settings

2006-09-14 Thread Robert Fisher
On Thursday 14 September 2006 6:12 pm, Robert Fisher wrote: > Could somebody please help me set up my mic to work (with skype.) > Well I started my computer again and Skype worked but when I tried to make a second call it would not and my sound was gone again - all without changing any se

Skype and sound settings

2006-09-13 Thread Robert Fisher
Could somebody please help me set up my mic to work (with skype.) To be honest I do not even know how to check if the mic is working. I played with kmix and got it going but then I lost all sound but I think I have that sorted now. Here are my settings from alsamixer Master 100 Master M

Re: Crackling sound from video files on Ubuntu

2006-08-20 Thread Douglas Royds
tuforums.org yet, though. On 18/08/06, Douglas Royds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Before upgrading to Ubuntu Dapper, Totem was able to play every video file that I had thrown at it. I'm now getting badly munged sound on .avi files, notably those from our own digital camera. The aud

Re: Crackling sound from video files on Ubuntu

2006-08-18 Thread Rik Tindall
Nick Rout wrote: More reportage from the trenches: no suggestions for fixing totem then? Or reportage on your experience with totem? Yes. With every release tried (4.10, 5.04, 5.10, 6.06), getting smooth playback from something_or_other (DVD etc) has always quickly necessitated dumping i

Re: Crackling sound from video files on Ubuntu

2006-08-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:21:54 +1200 Rik Tindall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > More reportage from the trenches: no suggestions for fixing totem then? Or reportage on your experience with totem?

Re: Crackling sound from video files on Ubuntu

2006-08-18 Thread Rik Tindall
Douglas Royds wrote: It's a Totem problem! MPlayer is playing the same files fine. Haven't had any success on Google or ubuntuforums.org yet, though. Carl Cerecke wrote: After upgrading to Dapper on my desktop, my sound was completely hosed. So bad that the login sound kept repeat

Re: Crackling sound from video files

2006-08-17 Thread Douglas Royds
It's a Totem problem! MPlayer is playing the same files fine. Haven't had any success on Google or ubuntuforums.org yet, though. Carl Cerecke wrote: After upgrading to Dapper on my desktop, my sound was completely hosed. So bad that the login sound kept repeating like a scratc

Re: Crackling sound from video files

2006-08-17 Thread Carl Cerecke
After upgrading to Dapper on my desktop, my sound was completely hosed. So bad that the login sound kept repeating like a scratched record (remember them?) and hung the login process. I had to Ctrl-Alt-F1 and kill esd before I could Alt-F7 and login. Worked around it by booting with the previous

Crackling sound from video files

2006-08-17 Thread Douglas Royds
Before upgrading to Ubuntu Dapper, Totem was able to play every video file that I had thrown at it. I'm now getting badly munged sound on .avi files, notably those from our own digital camera. The audio codec that it's using is Linear PCM (not exactly challenging) at 88kbps. There s

Re: Ubuntu sound problems

2006-05-02 Thread Don Gould
Stephen Irons wrote: Stephen [1] Apple products are reputed to "Just Work". My experience with (Ubuntu) Linux is that things "Just Start Working" after I have posted a cry for help on a list, or invoked the aid of our resident guru. This has happened three or four times now. sgi It's the ba

Re: Ubuntu sound problems

2006-04-30 Thread Stephen Irons
Thanks Neil and Nick for the info about linux sound. I will have to spend some more time reading about how it fits together. The system "Just Started Working" [1] on Friday evening. Following instructions from http://alsa.opensrc.org/TroubleShooting, I did the following: 1. checked

Re: Ubuntu sound problems

2006-04-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:21:22 +1200 Neil Stockbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 11:59 +1200, Stephen Irons wrote: > > It is not clear to me how various things work together (or not) in linux > > to make sound work. There seem to be too many layers and a

Re: Ubuntu sound problems

2006-04-28 Thread Neil Stockbridge
On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 11:59 +1200, Stephen Irons wrote: > It is not clear to me how various things work together (or not) in linux > to make sound work. There seem to be too many layers and alternatives: > alsa, oss, esd, jack? OSS is a known interface between application software and

Ubuntu sound problems

2006-04-27 Thread Stephen Irons
with the CMI page on alsa-project.org). However, I do not get sound: no sound effects, nothing from rhythmbox. When I try to adjust the volume levels using the gnome mixer application, they always spring back up to full volume. alsamixer from the command line also refused to change the levels. 1. Any

Re: Gentoo sound card problems - solved

2006-02-07 Thread Robert Fisher
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 1:19 am, Ross Drummond wrote: > Yes rebooted and it now sort of works with manual modprobing the driver > module. > > This is an improvement on the previous where it was compiled in, and would > not work at all. > > Setting it up to work properly will be thrown open to all as a

Re: Gentoo sound card problems - solved

2006-02-07 Thread Ross Drummond
Yes rebooted and it now sort of works with manual modprobing the driver module. This is an improvement on the previous where it was compiled in, and would not work at all. Setting it up to work properly will be thrown open to all as a challenge at next weeks meeting. Cheers Ross Drummond . O

Re: Gentoo sound card problems - solved

2006-02-07 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Ross Drummond wrote: Recompiled the kernel with sound drivers as modules, ran alsaconf and it now just works. Cimpiling everything in should work as well. Just to make sure: Did you remember to reboot after recompiling the kernel with the driver build in? Thanks all for your help

Re: Gentoo sound card problems - solved

2006-02-01 Thread Ross Drummond
Recompiled the kernel with sound drivers as modules, ran alsaconf and it now just works. Thanks all for your help. Cheers Ross Drummond On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 17:05, you wrote: > I am experimenting with a Gentoo install. It is all going fine except for > the sound card. I can not get it t

Re: Gentoo sound card problems

2006-01-31 Thread Jamie Dobbs
the sound card. I can not get it to work. Can you help? Details below; lspci :00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA AC'97 Audio (rev 02) from the dot config file; # Sound # CONFIG_SOUND=y # # Advanced Linux Sound Architecture # CONFIG_SND=y CONFIG_SND_TI

Gentoo sound card problems

2006-01-31 Thread Ross Drummond
I am experimenting with a Gentoo install. It is all going fine except for the sound card. I can not get it to work. Can you help? Details below; lspci :00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801AA AC'97 Audio (rev 02) from the dot config file; # Sound # CONFIG_SO

Re: KDE + 2 sound cards?

2006-01-01 Thread Matthew Dombroski
You can set in the control center which card is used for output. Set the system to ALSA and the device to /dev/snd/ if youre lucky /dev/adsp0 and /dev/adsp1 will exist and you can use one of them. > Has anyone tried KDE with the equivalent of two sound cards? I.e. one is > on the mobo, the

KDE + 2 sound cards?

2005-12-31 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Has anyone tried KDE with the equivalent of two sound cards? I.e. one is on the mobo, the other in a PCI slot. kmix sees both, but I can't find any control over which card is used to get the sound. Are two sound cards in a system at all supported, and if so, how? Thanks, Volker -- V

Re: Directing terminal ring to play a sound?

2005-12-15 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
It's possible to get KDE to play any sound file for the system bell; this however only affects KDE apps. Additionally, konsole needs to have its bell set to "system notification". Nothing from any other app. Now I've tracked down (trip to dirty garage corner) an old spea

Re: Directing terminal ring to play a sound?

2005-12-12 Thread Andrew Errington
> Me thinks it's time for another trip to DSE for a simple 8ohm speaker. > > Volker I have about 5 old PC cases in the garage- if you want a speaker out of any one (or all of them) email me off-list. Andy

Re: Directing terminal ring to play a sound?

2005-12-10 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> K -> Control Centre -> Sound & Multimedia -> + -> System Bell Yes I'd found that, and changed it from "system bell" to "system notification". No effect though - but it's still probably a necessary setting for KDE. > But for some reason

Re: Directing terminal ring to play a sound?

2005-12-10 Thread Ross Drummond
Try Ctrl + G Cheers Ross Drummond On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:34, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Hmm, it doesn't work, but as far as I can see, it ought to. It only > applies to konsole though - what about other terminal emulators, or > other apps? Though one can possibly argue that "terminal bell" implies

Re: Directing terminal ring to play a sound?

2005-12-10 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:34, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > On my machine this sound plays through my sound card. To test use; > > > > echo -e "\a" > > Hmm, it doesn't work, but as far as I can see, it ought to. It only > applies to konsole though - what about

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