Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-multimedia (23 mails)

[Eduard Avetisyan <dich_ed@xxxxxxxxx>]

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:
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> 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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