December 2002 - openSUSE Multimedia - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RA to Wav
by Darrell Cormier 28 Dec '02

28 Dec '02

Does anyone know a good program to convert Real Audio files to wav files. -Darrell Cormier -

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Display settings help.....
by Billy 28 Dec '02

28 Dec '02

I installed suse linuix from the FTP server and got it all set up with no problem! But now after I goto run it when the graphical login screen comes the screen gos black and the moniter displays a internal message "out of scan range.: I know this is cause settings of some sort are too hight! But how can I fix this? ***Billy M.*** --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now

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*.ogg video player
by jaakko tamminen 26 Dec '02

26 Dec '02

Hi What program should I use for playing *.ogg videos? I have searched xine and mplayer sites, and done what I believe to be correct, but it just won't work. I have SuSE 8.0, and all other formats do work.. Jaska.

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Re: [suse-multimedia-e] xine/ogle/mplayer slow dvd video output
by David Herman 26 Dec '02

26 Dec '02

On Wednesday 25 December 2002 12:49 pm, m9935223(a)stud.unileoben.ac.at wrote: > hi! > it´s correct 8.1 is using grub! ithink the slow dvd playing is a > problem with the scsi-emulation. grub automaticly use the scsi-emu > for the dvd AND the burner. use ide-cdrom for your dvd. you can add > it ih the config file of grub or directly in the boot prompt! i have > suse 8.1 and a dvd and a burner and A LOT OF FUN WITH DVD-LOOKING > merry christmas!!! > ciao > bjoern > send request > p.s. i dont know exactly ide-cd or ide-cdrom - one of them is > correct!!! HAVE FUN AND USE LINUX!!! So at the boot prompt I just type ide-cdrom? Is this supposed to be an append=ide-cdrom or some other command BTW I'm still using lilo Thanks for the help, Happy Holidays dh

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xine/ogle/mplayer slow dvd video output
by David Herman 26 Dec '02

26 Dec '02

I've finally figured out how to get these progs to actually play dvd on my machine but the video part of the dvd playback is excruciatingly slow. I had the same dvd player in a much slower machine under suse7.2 and things were fine but on suse8.1 it's unwatchable. xine refuses to see my dvd if it is set as /dev/hdb, but will play it Sloooooowly if I use /dev sr0. Unfortunately this does not allow me to turn DMA on for the dvd player. Actually for some reason none of my drives are allowed to set dma on any more, even though they were set up that way right after I installed 8.1 I know I've covered a bit of ground, but I'm hoping that something here will ring a bell for someone. Thanks for your help dh

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Software Midi
by Z_God 21 Dec '02

21 Dec '02

I'm trying to get some good software midi program installed since my onboard audio (Via686) hasn't got any support for midi. I have installed Timidity with ALSA support according to the how-to. When I run the Timidity server (I need to run it with -B4,8 instead of 2,8 cause otherwise sound quality is bad, haven't tried any other values yet) eveything works correctly. The problem is that I would like to be able to use midi all the time without having to run the Timidity server each time. Also when I play a midi file, the sound device is used so I can't play wave sounds at the same time for example. Is there any workaround for this? Would it be better to use another program instead of Timidity in my case? Thanks in advance.

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[suse-multimedia-e] Audio CD Problems
by Gary Stanley 20 Dec '02

20 Dec '02

Hey all, I posted a question a couple of days ago about problems I was having with SuSe 8.1 recognising CD Drives properly.... I'd like to say thanks to all those who posted answers as things are now working much more like they should, but I still have one tiny problem - I can't play Audio CD's. I have the two drives - a DVD (/dev/hdc mapped to /media/cdrom & /media/dvd) and a CD Rewriter (/dev/sr0 mapped to /media/cdrecorder). Mounting DVD's and normal CD's in the DVD drive works fine and burning CD's with the CD rewriter also works fine but I can't get programs like XMMS to play audio CD's inserted in the DVD drive. I do have an audio cable running internally from the DVD drive to my sound card and I have made sure sound isn't muted anywhere... I have also made sure I have the correct permissions to play stuff but alas I cannot get this working!!!!!!! I know you can't mount audio cd's, but how do I get programs like XMMS to play audio CD's???????? Playing location "audiocd:/" doesn't seem to work nor does "/media/cdrom" or "/media/dvd"..... Any suggestions? Gary.

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[suse-multimedia-e] Problems with drives under suse 8.1
by Gary Stanley 18 Dec '02

18 Dec '02

Hi All, I have a problem with a pretty standard default Suse 8.1 installation where by I have one Philips 1200 CD rewriter & a panasonic 106s dvd drive and Suse seems to be reconising them wrong. If I stick a dvd in the dvd drive it gets mounted under /dev/cdrecorder !! I'm also unable to mount/play any audio cd's in either drive although sound works fine. (Yes they both have audio cables connected from them to my sound card) I'm a bit of a Linux newbie so I may just be being totally stupid but I'm a Windows (hiss, boo) IT techie by day and like to think I know a bit when it comes to solving problems but I could do with some help with this PLLLEEEEASSSSEEEEE. >From what I've read/learned the entries in FSTAB have a lot to do with drive allocation so the lines that relate to my drives are as follows: /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 Any help with solving these problems would be gratefully received...... Gary.

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RE: [suse-multimedia-e] Problems with drives under suse 8.1
by Gary Stanley 18 Dec '02

18 Dec '02

Thanks for all the suggestions you guys are firing my way, the PC in question is my home machine so I won't be able to let you all know if any of these fixes work until I get home from work tonight .... But I will let you know either way... -----Original Message----- From: Tony Bloomfield [mailto:tonyb.lx@btinternet.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 12:25 PM To: Gary Stanley; 'suse-multimedia-e(a)suse.com' Subject: Re: [suse-multimedia-e] Problems with drives under suse 8.1 On Wednesday 18 December 2002 11:24, Gary Stanley wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a problem with a pretty standard default Suse 8.1 installation > where by I have one Philips 1200 CD rewriter & a panasonic 106s dvd > drive and Suse seems to be reconising them wrong. <snip> > > Any help with solving these problems would be gratefully > received...... > Hi Gary, Suse made a bit of a cock-up on the 8.1 distribution. They implemented SCSI emulation on all CD drives but didn't set up the device links corrrectly. The following fix was suggested - Correct setup of SCSI Cds > The symlinks in 8.1 are wrong. > > # ln -sf /dev/sr0 /dev/dvd > # ln -sf /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom > # ln -sf /dev/sr1 /dev/cdrecorder > > Should fix it, if your DVD is 'hdc' and your CD-RW is 'hdd' I won't pretend to understand it, but it worked for me (also a newbie). There's also a bit of a permission problem. You need to do chmod a+rw /dev/sg0 Apparently sg0 is the general scsi controller. Problems like this come up frequently on the suse-linux-e list; you might be better off trying there. Cheers, TonyB

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Problems mounting a multi session CD.
by Jason Farmer 17 Dec '02

17 Dec '02

Hi everyone. I'm having problems getting to the data part of a CD. It happens with a couple of CD's that I own. One of which is Diskworld2, and the other is Filter - the Amalgamut I know there's multimedia content on the drive but when I go to mount it I get a message, Could not mount device. The reported error was: /dev/cdrecorder: Input/output error mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified I can play the audio though. My FSTab file has these settings. /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 Any Ideas? Jason

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