February 2005 - openSUSE Multimedia - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Sound problem - works with some apps not others
by Steve King 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

Hi I have 2 PCs running Suse 9.2. The older one works fine, but this second has probems with sound. The problems are: - some apps do not work: amarok and xine in particular. Amarok gives the impression of being "stuck": the progress counter does not move off 0:00. What makes this odd is that other apps do play sound: xmms, grip, ogle. - when I use the "test" button in Yast2 soundcard set-up, it too seems to get stuck. It plays a sound, but instead of the full sample, it plays the first chord and a bit of the next, over and over and over again. I get the same with alsaconf. lspci says that the soundcard is VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60). This is consistent with what the soundcard set up says. (The PC that works has Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 20)) I have tried various settings for ac97_quirk and dxs_support, but while these change the quality of the sound, the test sample is still "stuck" (expect for some which remove it altogether). I have tried adding and removing modules snd_via82xx and via82cxxx_audio, but no improvement. (By default, snd_via82xx is active and via82cxxx_audio is not.) Has anyone got any ideas on this? The 2 PCs use NIS etc so that the family can use either and get the same environment ... except that if we forget which app it is OK to use (and remember not to play mpeg4 files on the affected machine at all), we can crash everything. TIA Steve Dundee, UK

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Dazzle D-V Bridge I'd like to try.
by Tim Hanson 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

I picked up something a couple of years ago that I'm just beginning to look at again now. It's called a Dazzle D-V Bridge. It looks pretty cool. It has inputs and outputs of analog (RCA jacks), S-Video, and firewire. It will convert analog to digital, digital to analog, or pass through. What interests me most is playing media (i.e., old vcr tapes) and either storing it or displaying it in real time on my pc, equipped with a 1394 card. Naturally, the appliance came with plenty of Windows and Mac software. Terrific. I know about and use vobcopy and ogle to play directly on my pc's dvd. Is there software which will read the incoming stream and pass it through to the screen? If possible I'd like to use this without buying another tv card.

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915G Sound drivers for SuSE 9.2
by Zoltan Szecsei 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Hi Guys, Just joined this list - hopefully it is the correct one for my question. I have an MSI 915G based motherboard and SuSE 9.2 cannot detect the onboard sound system. (CMI9880L) I have tried BIOS settings for both AC97 and AZALIA. I cannot find anything helpful on the SuSE website, nor Intel, nor ALSA, nor Google!! Can anyone please help me with getting onboard sound working. TIA, Zoltan

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Connexant Modem Driver for SuSe Linux
by sunder sahayanathan 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

Hi Friends!! I'm workin on SuSe 9.1 linux kernel 2.6.4-52-smp. I have a D-Link modem and I want to make it work for this OS. Can u please suggest me a way? Details about my modem: PCI CONFIGURATION INFORMATION READ: VENDOR ID : 14F1 DEVICE ID : 2F00 SUBVENDOR ID : 14F1 SUBDEVICE ID : 2004 REVISION ID : 01 DEDUCED INFORMATION: VENDOR NAME : CONEXANT DEVICE NAME : HSF CHURCHILL DATA/FAX SUBVENDOR NAME : ACTIONTEC, ZOLTRIX, MODEM TYPE : HSF D-Link model Id. is DFM - 560IS+++ Thank You With Regards Sunder __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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FYI VMWare
by Brad Bourn 09 Feb '05

09 Feb '05

Hey all, I was approached by a rep from VMWare about employment. I LOVE my job and would never leave by my own choice. He asked me if I would mention that they are looking for some programmers. Since I see VMWare comming up in all of these lists I'm on, I didn't see a problem with forwarding his request. <quote> <snip> > > Actually I'm not trying to sell you anything, I'm just looking for > > referrals to any good 3D graphics systems programers. > > Vmware is looking to hire a few. <snip> > Yes, in fact I need to find an OpenGL systems developer, or at least a > graphics systems programmer with alot of OpenGL. <snip> Do you think you could maybe just mention on your discussion boards that vmware is looking for a systems level graphics programmer with Open GL experience? that would be cool, thanks, Brendan Moran Vmware, Inc. bmoran(a)vmware.com 650-475-5000 x706 www.vmware.com/news </quote> B-) P.S. Don't kill the messenger!

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Kaffeine seems to have taken over all sound playing
by jfweber＠bellsouth.net 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

And I can't find out where in the config it says it is going to do that, If I try to launch ANY other music player I get a message saying some other program is blocking it.. Also, and likely contributing (?) is a warning I get on startup FATAL ERROR /tmp/mcop is reachable by user .. but nothing has changed in those permissions so I have no idea what they are supposed to be, and root gets the same messages. This is since the latest upgrades to Kaffeine from Packman.. As far as I can tell no changes to the Kaffeine config file have been made. but it's pretty clear that it is the only way to play music including cds!! Well, right now anyway <VBG> -- j I'm putting on the B-mer Brothers Would you mind putting on this grass skirt?

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Including subtitles in VOB files
by Alain Barthélemy 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Hi, I have (almost) no problem to extract and compress from 9 to 5 Gb VOB files from a DVD with transcode and dvdauthor. tccat -i /dev/dvd -T1,-1 | tcextract-t vob -x mpeg2 | tcrequant -f X > file.m2v tccat -i /dev/dvd -T1,-1 | tcextract -t vob -x ac3 -a0 > file.ac3 tcmplex -i file.m2v -p file.ac3 -m d -o movie.vob dvdauthor -t -a ac3+fr --chapter=0:20:0,0:40:0 -o movie-dvd movie.vob dvdauthor -o movie-dvd -T It is mainly for fun. The resulted DVD works fine but impossible to find an easy way to extract and include subtitles with transcode/mplayer/dvdauthor. Can anyone advise a way to do it on Linux of course. -- Alain cassandre(a)bartydeux.be

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Recording no go in 9.2 Pro
by Iain Campbell 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Can't get any input from the mic or line to record - playback works ok - have tried KRecord, qaRecord, audacity, nothing works ... any ideas? System: IBM ThinkPad A21p (Crystal cs46xx) # lsmod Module Size Used by r128 97832 2 usbserial 26856 0 parport_pc 37824 1 lp 10536 0 parport 37960 2 parport_pc,lp nvram 8328 0 speedstep_lib 4228 0 freq_table 4356 0 thermal 17928 0 processor 25640 1 thermal fan 5380 0 button 8464 0 battery 11396 0 ac 6404 0 snd_pcm_oss 57896 0 snd_mixer_oss 19200 2 snd_pcm_oss snd_seq_midi 9504 0 snd_seq_midi_event 7424 1 snd_seq_midi snd_seq 53008 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event snd_cs46xx 87880 1 snd_rawmidi 24356 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_cs46xx snd_seq_device 8716 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi snd_ac97_codec 69728 1 snd_cs46xx snd_pcm 96776 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_cs46xx,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 24708 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd 60164 11 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq,snd_cs46xx,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 9056 2 snd ipv6 237312 13 snd_page_alloc 10248 2 snd_cs46xx,snd_pcm gameport 4608 1 snd_cs46xx edd 10012 0 joydev 9664 0 sg 35872 0 serial_cs 9884 1 st 37404 0 sd_mod 16912 0 sr_mod 16292 0 scsi_mod 111308 4 sg,st,sd_mod,sr_mod ide_cd 38176 0 cdrom 36508 2 sr_mod,ide_cd ds 17796 5 serial_cs uhci_hcd 29712 0 intel_agp 21024 1 agpgart 32168 2 intel_agp yenta_socket 19840 1 pcmcia_core 66100 3 serial_cs,ds,yenta_socket subfs 7552 2 nls_utf8 2176 1 nls_cp437 5888 1 vfat 13056 1 fat 43168 1 vfat evdev 8960 0 dm_mod 54524 0 usbcore 106724 4 usbserial,uhci_hcd e100 33664 0 mii 4992 1 e100 reiserfs 242000 1 also, # cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound alias snd-card-0 snd-cs46xx alias sound-slot-0 snd-cs46xx # rcalsasound status ALSA sound driver loaded. running any ideas?? TIA iain

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TV card no tuner
by Roger Beever 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Hi 9.2 detects my PCI Technotrend-budget / hauppauge WiTV-NOVA_T DVB Card but then list no tuner for it. Has any one get this card working? if yes any pointers howto's etc would be appreciated. Regards Roger

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