Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-multimedia (23 mails)

[John Sved <JohnSved@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Eduard,

Thanks for you suggestions.

I tried.  I lookede into a XMMS config file.  I saw nothing related to 
arts plugin.

I could find nothing about how to enable the arts plugin.


How do I stop the arts deamon ?

Jonathon's questions also lead to the conclusion that that something 
like a deamon has stopped working.  It is whatever is necessary to 
handle streams and mp3's etc. So perhaps the easiest thing to to is to 
reinstall such.  But what should I reinstall (ie what SuSe packages) ?

regards
John

Eduard Avetisyan wrote:
>  
>
> Hi John,
>
> Try to check if your xmms has the arts plugin enabled... 
> I would also try to stop the arts daemon at all and see if your
> player works that way...
>
> Regards
>      Eduard
>
> --- John Sved <JohnSved@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Jonathan Cowherd wrote:
> >
> > > What type of sound card are you using?  Are you using ALSA
> >
> > or just the
> >
> > > kernel driver?
> >
> > The soundcard in the Dell Inspiron laptop is an ESS Maestro.
> >
> >
> > > I assume that all other sound software works as expected? 
> >
> > Mp3 streams via
> >
> > > xmms, etc?
> >
> > Hmmm.  XMMS is no longer working.  It races through the file
> > and there 
> > is no sound.  Sound effects with KDE are normal.
> >
> > - JS
> >
> >
> > > Jonathan Paul Cowherd
> > > Linux and Java Administrator
> > > Genscape, Inc.
> > > Email:  jonathan.cowherd@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Office: (502) 583-3730
> > > Mobile: (502) 314-0444
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: John Sved [mailto:JohnSved@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> > > Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 1:25 PM
> > > To: suse-multimedia-e@xxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [suse-multimedia-e] Realplayer 8 stopped working
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Using SuSe 8.0 (previously 7.2) and the RealPlayer 8.
> > >
> > > Only problem in the past was the processor clock rate on my
> >
> > laptop.  If 
> >
> > > energy saving was not disabled it could cause the Realplay
> >
> > to play at 
> >
> > > the wrong speed.
> > >
> > > Now there is a wierd problem.  The "welcome" plays for only
> >
> > 0.2 seconds 
> >
> > > and there is no audio. This occurs for all real media. i.e.
> >
> > A video will 
> >
> > > play for a frame or two and then stop - no sound.  The aRTs
> >
> > in KDE 
> >
> > > control center - sound - server is set on at startup as
> >
> > always.
> >
> > > The sound I/O was set to autodetect.   I have now set it to
> >
> > ARTS.
> >
> > > Realplayer is set to use native sound driver - as always.
> > >
> > > Trying the other two sound driver preference options does
> >
> > allow RP8 to 
> >
> > > play video or audio but there is no audio output.
> > >
> > > I had a look at the real.com community support (UNIX) site
> >
> > and tried the 
> >
> > > various posted suggestions that looks relevant but there has
> >
> > been no fix.
> >
> > > I uninstalled and reinstalled RP8.
> > >
> > > Once it worked almost correctly with only poor sound quality
> >
> > even though 
> >
> > > the sound quality settings were the usual (16 bit etc.)
> > >
> > > But it did no last.  Again there is no sound as described
> >
> > above.  A 
> >
> > > fresh unistall, restart, install of RP8 did not help.
> > >
> > > The only recent change was the installation of Mozilla 1.1
> >
> > (previously I 
> >
> > > had 0.9.8) for many months with RP8 working OK.  and Java
> >
> > 1.4 RE
> >
> > > I suspect that the problem may be caused by a SuSe 8.0
> >
> > configuration bug 
> >
> > > or such but I do not know what to look for and I do not want
> >
> > to 
> >
> > > experiment !
> > >
> > > Any suggestions please ?
> > >
> > >
> > > -- John
> >
> >
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