Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-multimedia (19 mails)

[chuck <charlesso@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 14 November 2005 15:33, Peter Vollebregt wrote:
> chuck wrote:
> >  Hi
> >
> >  I'm trying to get sound working on Suse 10 on a card site for
> > my wife before she goes back to winderz.
> >   The site in question is "http://www.zworks.com/forever/ "
> >    I  tryed other sites and the same thing ,, Please help
> >
> >        TIA
> >            Chuck
>
> Chuck,
>
> This site is using midi to play the music. This uses soundfonts to
> create the sound (a bit like normal fonts to produce readable text).
> Your soundcard can be able to support this (the default stuff on
> motherboards normally not), but otherwise you need a piece of software
> to create the sound.
>
> The software you need probably is called 'timidity'. Install this if it
> is not installed already.
> When it works you can listen to midi music if you eneble timidity as the
> helper application. For firefox/mozilla you click on one of the .midi
> hyperlinks and tell the system once to open it via /usr/bin/timidity (my
> system tried to do it wia amarok by default with no success). Afterwards
> the browser will offer this as the default.
>
> If it does not work check the setings from your soundcard via YaST.
> 'Enable sequencer' should be ticked. You can try to delete and reenable
> your soundcard. When restarting the soundserver (as root 'rcalsasound
> restart') it should work.
>
> If not: first check if the sounds are not at a zero volume or muted
> (normally the kmix mixer)
> if still not: try to launch timidity manually via
> /usr/bin/timidity -iA -B2,8 -Os -EFreverb=0
>
>
> In Suse 9.1 timidity would not start automatically and i added an
> executable file timidity.sh to my ~/.kde/Autostart folder with as content
>
> /#!/bin/sh/
> /#/
> /#/
> /usr/bin/timidity -iA -B2,8 -Os -EFreverb=0 *&*
>
> HTH,
> Peter Vollebregt
Thanks Peter I shall give it a try , forgot about Timidity 
  Chuck