What type of sound card are you using? Are you using ALSA or just the kernel driver?
I assume that all other sound software works as expected? Mp3 streams via xmms, etc?
Jonathan Paul Cowherd Linux and Java Administrator Genscape, Inc. Email: jonathan.cowherd@genscape.com Office: (502) 583-3730 Mobile: (502) 314-0444
-----Original Message----- From: John Sved [mailto:JohnSved@compuserve.com] Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 1:25 PM To: suse-multimedia-e@suse.com Subject: [suse-multimedia-e] Realplayer 8 stopped working
Hi,
Using SuSe 8.0 (previously 7.2) and the RealPlayer 8.
Only problem in the past was the processor clock rate on my laptop. If energy saving was not disabled it could cause the Realplay to play at the wrong speed.
Now there is a wierd problem. The "welcome" plays for only 0.2 seconds and there is no audio. This occurs for all real media. i.e. A video will play for a frame or two and then stop - no sound. The aRTs in KDE control center - sound - server is set on at startup as always.
The sound I/O was set to autodetect. I have now set it to ARTS.
Realplayer is set to use native sound driver - as always.
Trying the other two sound driver preference options does allow RP8 to play video or audio but there is no audio output.
I had a look at the real.com community support (UNIX) site and tried the various posted suggestions that looks relevant but there has been no fix.
I uninstalled and reinstalled RP8.
Once it worked almost correctly with only poor sound quality even though the sound quality settings were the usual (16 bit etc.)
But it did no last. Again there is no sound as described above. A fresh unistall, restart, install of RP8 did not help.
The only recent change was the installation of Mozilla 1.1 (previously I had 0.9.8) for many months with RP8 working OK. and Java 1.4 RE
I suspect that the problem may be caused by a SuSe 8.0 configuration bug or such but I do not know what to look for and I do not want to experiment !
Any suggestions please ?
-- John
Jonathan Cowherd wrote:
What type of sound card are you using? Are you using ALSA or just the kernel driver?
The soundcard in the Dell Inspiron laptop is an ESS Maestro.
I assume that all other sound software works as expected? Mp3 streams via xmms, etc?
Hmmm. XMMS is no longer working. It races through the file and there is no sound. Sound effects with KDE are normal.
- JS
Jonathan Paul Cowherd Linux and Java Administrator Genscape, Inc. Email: jonathan.cowherd@genscape.com Office: (502) 583-3730 Mobile: (502) 314-0444
-----Original Message----- From: John Sved [mailto:JohnSved@compuserve.com] Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 1:25 PM To: suse-multimedia-e@suse.com Subject: [suse-multimedia-e] Realplayer 8 stopped working
Hi,
Using SuSe 8.0 (previously 7.2) and the RealPlayer 8.
Only problem in the past was the processor clock rate on my laptop. If energy saving was not disabled it could cause the Realplay to play at the wrong speed.
Now there is a wierd problem. The "welcome" plays for only 0.2 seconds and there is no audio. This occurs for all real media. i.e. A video will play for a frame or two and then stop - no sound. The aRTs in KDE control center - sound - server is set on at startup as always.
The sound I/O was set to autodetect. I have now set it to ARTS.
Realplayer is set to use native sound driver - as always.
Trying the other two sound driver preference options does allow RP8 to play video or audio but there is no audio output.
I had a look at the real.com community support (UNIX) site and tried the various posted suggestions that looks relevant but there has been no fix.
I uninstalled and reinstalled RP8.
Once it worked almost correctly with only poor sound quality even though the sound quality settings were the usual (16 bit etc.)
But it did no last. Again there is no sound as described above. A fresh unistall, restart, install of RP8 did not help.
The only recent change was the installation of Mozilla 1.1 (previously I had 0.9.8) for many months with RP8 working OK. and Java 1.4 RE
I suspect that the problem may be caused by a SuSe 8.0 configuration bug or such but I do not know what to look for and I do not want to experiment !
Any suggestions please ?
-- John
I forgot to say that ALSA is used in the Sound Server. It will not accept AutoDetect. It used to be AutoDetect and still is if root is logged in.
-- JS
Jonathan Cowherd wrote:
What type of sound card are you using? Are you using ALSA or just the kernel driver?
I assume that all other sound software works as expected? Mp3 streams via xmms, etc?
Jonathan Paul Cowherd Linux and Java Administrator Genscape, Inc. Email: jonathan.cowherd@genscape.com Office: (502) 583-3730 Mobile: (502) 314-0444
-----Original Message----- From: John Sved [mailto:JohnSved@compuserve.com] Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 1:25 PM To: suse-multimedia-e@suse.com Subject: [suse-multimedia-e] Realplayer 8 stopped working
Hi,
Using SuSe 8.0 (previously 7.2) and the RealPlayer 8.
Only problem in the past was the processor clock rate on my laptop. If energy saving was not disabled it could cause the Realplay to play at the wrong speed.
Now there is a wierd problem. The "welcome" plays for only 0.2 seconds and there is no audio. This occurs for all real media. i.e. A video will play for a frame or two and then stop - no sound. The aRTs in KDE control center - sound - server is set on at startup as always.
The sound I/O was set to autodetect. I have now set it to ARTS.
Realplayer is set to use native sound driver - as always.
Trying the other two sound driver preference options does allow RP8 to play video or audio but there is no audio output.
I had a look at the real.com community support (UNIX) site and tried the various posted suggestions that looks relevant but there has been no fix.
I uninstalled and reinstalled RP8.
Once it worked almost correctly with only poor sound quality even though the sound quality settings were the usual (16 bit etc.)
But it did no last. Again there is no sound as described above. A fresh unistall, restart, install of RP8 did not help.
The only recent change was the installation of Mozilla 1.1 (previously I had 0.9.8) for many months with RP8 working OK. and Java 1.4 RE
I suspect that the problem may be caused by a SuSe 8.0 configuration bug or such but I do not know what to look for and I do not want to experiment !
Any suggestions please ?
-- John
Hi John,
Try to check if your xmms has the arts plugin enabled... I would also try to stop the arts daemon at all and see if your player works that way...
Regards Eduard
--- John Sved JohnSved@compuserve.com wrote:
Jonathan Cowherd wrote:
What type of sound card are you using? Are you using ALSA
or just the
kernel driver?
The soundcard in the Dell Inspiron laptop is an ESS Maestro.
I assume that all other sound software works as expected?
Mp3 streams via
xmms, etc?
Hmmm. XMMS is no longer working. It races through the file and there is no sound. Sound effects with KDE are normal.
- JS
Jonathan Paul Cowherd Linux and Java Administrator Genscape, Inc. Email: jonathan.cowherd@genscape.com Office: (502) 583-3730 Mobile: (502) 314-0444
-----Original Message----- From: John Sved [mailto:JohnSved@compuserve.com] Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 1:25 PM To: suse-multimedia-e@suse.com Subject: [suse-multimedia-e] Realplayer 8 stopped working
Hi,
Using SuSe 8.0 (previously 7.2) and the RealPlayer 8.
Only problem in the past was the processor clock rate on my
laptop. If
energy saving was not disabled it could cause the Realplay
to play at
the wrong speed.
Now there is a wierd problem. The "welcome" plays for only
0.2 seconds
and there is no audio. This occurs for all real media. i.e.
A video will
play for a frame or two and then stop - no sound. The aRTs
in KDE
control center - sound - server is set on at startup as
always.
The sound I/O was set to autodetect. I have now set it to
ARTS.
Realplayer is set to use native sound driver - as always.
Trying the other two sound driver preference options does
allow RP8 to
play video or audio but there is no audio output.
I had a look at the real.com community support (UNIX) site
and tried the
various posted suggestions that looks relevant but there has
been no fix.
I uninstalled and reinstalled RP8.
Once it worked almost correctly with only poor sound quality
even though
the sound quality settings were the usual (16 bit etc.)
But it did no last. Again there is no sound as described
above. A
fresh unistall, restart, install of RP8 did not help.
The only recent change was the installation of Mozilla 1.1
(previously I
had 0.9.8) for many months with RP8 working OK. and Java
1.4 RE
I suspect that the problem may be caused by a SuSe 8.0
configuration bug
or such but I do not know what to look for and I do not want
to
experiment !
Any suggestions please ?
-- John
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Hi Eduard,
Thanks for you suggestions.
I tried. I lookede into a XMMS config file. I saw nothing related to arts plugin.
I could find nothing about how to enable the arts plugin.
How do I stop the arts deamon ?
Jonathon's questions also lead to the conclusion that that something like a deamon has stopped working. It is whatever is necessary to handle streams and mp3's etc. So perhaps the easiest thing to to is to reinstall such. But what should I reinstall (ie what SuSe packages) ?
regards John
Eduard Avetisyan wrote:
Hi John,
Try to check if your xmms has the arts plugin enabled... I would also try to stop the arts daemon at all and see if your player works that way...
Regards Eduard
--- John Sved JohnSved@compuserve.com wrote:
Jonathan Cowherd wrote:
What type of sound card are you using? Are you using ALSA
or just the
kernel driver?
The soundcard in the Dell Inspiron laptop is an ESS Maestro.
I assume that all other sound software works as expected?
Mp3 streams via
xmms, etc?
Hmmm. XMMS is no longer working. It races through the file and there is no sound. Sound effects with KDE are normal.
- JS
Jonathan Paul Cowherd Linux and Java Administrator Genscape, Inc. Email: jonathan.cowherd@genscape.com Office: (502) 583-3730 Mobile: (502) 314-0444
-----Original Message----- From: John Sved [mailto:JohnSved@compuserve.com] Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 1:25 PM To: suse-multimedia-e@suse.com Subject: [suse-multimedia-e] Realplayer 8 stopped working
Hi,
Using SuSe 8.0 (previously 7.2) and the RealPlayer 8.
Only problem in the past was the processor clock rate on my
laptop. If
energy saving was not disabled it could cause the Realplay
to play at
the wrong speed.
Now there is a wierd problem. The "welcome" plays for only
0.2 seconds
and there is no audio. This occurs for all real media. i.e.
A video will
play for a frame or two and then stop - no sound. The aRTs
in KDE
control center - sound - server is set on at startup as
always.
The sound I/O was set to autodetect. I have now set it to
ARTS.
Realplayer is set to use native sound driver - as always.
Trying the other two sound driver preference options does
allow RP8 to
play video or audio but there is no audio output.
I had a look at the real.com community support (UNIX) site
and tried the
various posted suggestions that looks relevant but there has
been no fix.
I uninstalled and reinstalled RP8.
Once it worked almost correctly with only poor sound quality
even though
the sound quality settings were the usual (16 bit etc.)
But it did no last. Again there is no sound as described
above. A
fresh unistall, restart, install of RP8 did not help.
The only recent change was the installation of Mozilla 1.1
(previously I
had 0.9.8) for many months with RP8 working OK. and Java
1.4 RE
I suspect that the problem may be caused by a SuSe 8.0
configuration bug
or such but I do not know what to look for and I do not want
to
experiment !
Any suggestions please ?
-- John
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Hi John,
I tried. I lookede into a XMMS config file. I saw nothing related to arts plugin.
Try from the GUI: Options->Preferences->Output plugins... There are a lot of interesting options there :)
I could find nothing about how to enable the arts plugin.
This is the KDE sound server, and can be enables/disables from KDE Control center... A rough way would be killall -9 artsd (not recommended :)
Good luck Eduard
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Eduard,
OK.. I finally found the Options etc and have enabled the ALSA output plugin. So XMMS now works.
Real Play 8 still does not (as discribed in my earlier post).
Thanks,
John
Eduard Avetisyan wrote:
Hi John,
I tried. I lookede into a XMMS config file. I saw nothing related to arts plugin.
Try from the GUI: Options->Preferences->Output plugins... There are a lot of interesting options there :)
I could find nothing about how to enable the arts plugin.
This is the KDE sound server, and can be enables/disables from KDE Control center... A rough way would be killall -9 artsd (not recommended :)
Good luck Eduard
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