Am Dienstag, 8. April 2003 15:50 schrieb Stefan Schlörholz:

Hello everybody,

to play mp3 files I use xmms 1.2.5 on my system (SuSE 7.3 KDE 3.1). When using the arts driver (from SuSE's xmms-kde rpm package) I get a delay between what I see animated in the xmms window and what I hear. The visual effect comes first, some ms (I guess 300 to 500) ahead of the sound.

When switching to the OSS driver visual and sound are in phase.

I would like to use the arts driver rather than the OSS driver since the arts driver blocks the OSS driver for some time after having been active.

Can anybody help here?

cu

Stefan

I never use arts for such a job, because the delay is horrible an I was never able to compensate this. Perhaps you should try to configure arts to use alsa as sound backend, then it could be, that xmms can use oss without problems. If you updated your kernel to mantel's development kernels like me, then you have the problem, that you have alsa 0.9 running, but arts is compiled against alsa 0.5 (which is very depreciated now). In this case, alsa backend does not work unless you fetch the arts src.rpm and rebuild. But this should be no big problem. If you didn't update your kernel or oly use the official kernel releases, alsa should be fine as backend for arts. Greets, Daniel