- openSUSE Multimedia

trouble importing files into SLab
by Glenn Holmer 06 Jan '02

06 Jan '02

I'm having trouble importing files into SLab. I have large (>100M) .WAV files on CD, and when I select "Tape/Import", I get the progress dialog for a second or two and then it goes away. I tried using sox to convert to an .au file on disk first and had the same result. When I used sox to convert to .raw first, I was able to import it, but it played back at half speed. What am I doing wrong? SuSE 7.2, kernel 2.4.16, Pentium III, 256M RAM, plenty of disk. -- ======================================================= Glenn Holmer (gholmer(a)ameritech.net) ------------------------------------------------------- Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. (In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.) ------------------------------------------------------- -H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", 1926 =======================================================

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SORRY - BITTE UM VERSTAENDNIS
by Oliver Ob 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

Hallo Freunde und Collegen, da ich aufgrund eines bloeden Fehlers meine Antworten und Mails seit 31.12.2001 ins Nichts geschrieben und somit Datenverlust erlitten habe, bitte ich Euch, alle privaten Mails seit 31.12.2001 an mich erneut zu senden, ich werde dann alles beantworten. Tut mir Leid, ich aergere mich auch sehr ueber den Verlust. Olli --- Hello friends and collegues, I saved my replies dated after 31122001 to NULL, so I lost all that data and you may not have the responses you requested. So please resend your private mails which were dated after 31122001. Sorry for this inconvenience. Olli -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ =Oliver@home= *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ I http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/Olli/olli.html I I http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/friends.html I I http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VGAP-93 I I http://home.t-online.de/home/spacecraft.portal I >>> Telek0ma iBBMS - soon back online +49.4503.TRSi1/TRSi2 <<<

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Sound recording
by John C. Craig 02 Jan '02

02 Jan '02

I am trying to set up one of my systems to do high quality sound recording. With some earlier versions of Linux (Mandrake 7.1 on a P-233 laptop with OPL3 sound for example), this did not seem like a big problem, I was able to use grecord to grab audio, (even in 44.1KHz Stereo) and edit with snd or others. Now, I am having all kinds of problems. I have SuSE 7.3 Pro installed on a couple of boxes, one a K6-2 500 with C-Media onboard audio, and the other a Athlon 1.4 GHz with Ali onboard audio. Some of the symptoms I am getting include excessive input volume and distortion, pops and dropouts, (with bcast2000 or snd), screwed up time base (sound playing back double speed) with grecord. I have tried comand line recording with ecasound, but it won't configure the input stream properly. Some of the issues may be related to OSS vs ALSA sound configurations. Yast2 only wants to configure via ALSA, but sometimes that doesn't work. I am also left with the feeling that I should be using a better, well-supported sound card instead of the built-in one. Any suggestions as to an excellent (but not too expensive) sound card for audio recording? What about the low-latency kernel patch? Anyone successfully patched the SuSE 2.4.10 kernel with it? does it help? How can I figure out issues of audio input via ALSA or OSS? Any great success stories? Thanks for any help John

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Re: [SLE] Converting Albums to MP3
by Oliver Ob 31 Dec '01

31 Dec '01

First off, isn't this a suse-multimedia topic? Thus, I crosspost-move this mail there. Sjoerd Hiemstra schrieb: > > James Mohr wrote: > > I want to convert my record collection MP3 and I am looking for a way > > to do it. Somewhere in my memory is a program that will record what > > comes into the sound card and indentify the pauses between songs and > > separate them into individual WAV files. Once in WAV, the conversion > > to MP3 is pretty easy. However, it is this first step that has me > > stumped. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreaciated. > > I guess the program you are looking for is DAP (Digital Audio > Processor), series snd. Gramofile was made for that purpose, although I have not yet investigated on the "detect pause time" option (or what was it called there?) > bladeenc Song.aiff What I am after is that if I copy say 90 min of sound to say maybe 10 splitted wav tracks, I want to convert them all (all 10 in one directory) to 10 mp3 files in one command on the console. i am trying to write me sort of a mp3_2_wav script, but yet it does not work. so before i go like reinventing wheels here, has someone such a script (no x, just console script!) that maybe uses the mpq123 -w option? > I suppose that automatically identifying the pauses and separating the > numbers into individual files is possible with DAP, but I have not > investigated this. Regards, olli

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Windows emulator for Linux
by Oliver Ob 31 Dec '01

31 Dec '01

Greek Geek schrieb: > > Hi All & Austin, > > who typed.... > > It has been a while since I have tried WINE. Tell me/us, what games you > are running & what tweaks yall made-if any? > > Will it run Civ II or Red Alert or WordPerfect 8/9??? I would like to run these applications which I have so far not found in the wine homepage to be supported: Rebirth 1.0 audio application, audio runs GOOD, but screen addressment Rebirth 2.01 audio application, audio runs GOOD, but screen addressment VGA Planets Winplan 3.5 front screen loads, but cannot play game Planets 4 front screen loads, but cannot play game Incubation (Battle Isle 4) title loads, but no sound 688i Hunter Killer title loads from cd, but gets stuck on front screen, no sound My versions are all registered and original so that is not sort of a shareware restriction, but a problem of tweak options for wine. i also stand in front of a wall when it comes to that the audio WORKS for the sound applications, but does not for the games. WONDER BIG TIME. hope we can work this out together! Any ideas appreciated! -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ =Oliver@home= *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ I http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/Olli/olli.html I I http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/friends.html I I http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VGAP-93 I I http://home.t-online.de/home/spacecraft.portal I >>> Telek0ma iBBMS - soon back online +49.4503.TRSi1/TRSi2 <<<

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[SLE] Automatically play an audio CD (resent b/c/o no response yet)
by Oliver Ob 31 Dec '01

31 Dec '01

Is there any way to simply have some background (console) task AUTOMATICALLY play that cd in background as soon as I put that cd into the drive? How do I do that? (console solutions please!) thanks, also text pointers appreciated. -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ =Oliver@home= *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤

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scanner of suse 7.3
by Ricardo Wagemaker 29 Dec '01

29 Dec '01

Hi everyone happy holiday 2 all of u!! Anyway quick question I am going to buy a scanner, is the any scanner that is recommended to use, well at list that works very well with suse 7.3?? Many Thanks Rico -- ________________________________________________________________________________ Access your POP email anytime, anywhere with WebMail.com (www.webmail.com), a product of Mail.com.

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Anyone playing midi files on sblive series cards?
by John Lamb 29 Dec '01

29 Dec '01

I have unstalled an sblive 5.1 card without problems (SuSE 7.3). I can play midi (alsa), for example, by using # sfxload /usr/share/sfbank/creative/8mbgmsfx.sf2 and then running kmid However, I have some questions that can probably be answered by anyone who has installed SuSE 7.3 with an sblive card already installed. These should help me automate the process of loading the soundfonts. 1. What should the alsa section (at the end) of /etc/modules.conf look like? Mine looks like: ------------------------------- # Alsa sound support. # Warning: please don't modify comments over aliases 'snd-card-#' alias char-major-116 snd alias char-major-14 off options snd snd_cards_limit=1 snd_major=116 # vuMS.9TIiBJnxyM6:SB Live! EMU10000 alias snd-card-0 snd-card-emu10k1 ##jdl added post-install snd-card-0 modprobe snd-seq-midi ##end of jdl added -------------------------------- 2. How is the /etc/alsa.d/emu10k1 script used? 3. Where is the 8mbgmsfx.sf2 soundfont normally put? 4. If I single-click on a .mid file in Konqueror I get the embedded version of kmid, which plays without sound. How do I tell the embedded kmid that I want to use the midi device: Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 - Alsa device? All advice gratefully received. JDL

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compact digital mp3 player/recorders?
by Mark Hounschell 28 Dec '01

28 Dec '01

Do these handheld digital mp3 players mount like a usb disk such that all you have to do is mount them and copy your mp3s over to them? Anyone used any of these with linux?? Regards -- Mark Hounschell dmarkh(a)cfl.rr.com

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equalized .WAV files to CD
by Glenn Holmer 20 Dec '01

20 Dec '01

I have successfully transferred some audio recordings to large .WAV files, and would now like to transfer them to an audio CD. But I want to run them through an equalizer first. What would be the best way to do this? My sound card is SoundBlaster Live (module snd-card-emu10k1, ALSA). -- =========================================================== Glenn Holmer (gholmer(a)ameritech.net) ----------------------------------------------------------- Performing music well is a matter of distorting the score to produce the desired illusion, namely the existence of the score in a pure state. ----------------------------------------------------------- -Shadow, 1975 ===========================================================

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