[NTLUG:Discuss] XMMS MP3 PLAYER

[Kelledin]

On Wednesday 12 May 2004 07:08 pm, David Ross wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 May 2004 05:47 pm, David Evans wrote:
> > I broke my xmms player today and I have no idea how I did
> > it. XMMS will open but when I try to play a file that I know
> > it will play it gives me an error message
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> If you are using KDE it may be an artsd problem. Also GAIM
> instant messenger hogs the soundcard if it loads on log-in.

artsd is my first suspicion as well, especially as the problem 
goes away on login/re-YaST/logout.  Probably artsd gets killed 
when the sound driver gets removed and reinstalled, but then 
artsd gets started next time you start KDE.

As for the system that *doesn't* have this problem...I suspect 
the problem-free machine has a sound card that supports multiple 
PCM streams at once (like an SBLive/EMU10K1), while the other 
machine's sound card only supports one PCM stream at a time.  
artsd will hog at least one PCM stream.

I would try one of the available arts output plugins for XMMS.  
Or set artsd not to start automatically.

--
Kelledin
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