Re: iBook2 and Sound

[Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 06:17:45PM -0400, John Hughes wrote:
> On Monday 25 June 2001 05:10, you wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 02:35:39PM -0400, John Hughes wrote:
> > > Anyone know if someone has gotten this working yet? Its quite funny, I've
> > > gotten the dvd player to work(of all things), yet I have no sound.
> >
> > Sound isn't supported.  What dvd player worked for you?  XF4.1.0+ogle
> > locks hard in the 1st transition.
> 
> Of course sound isn't supported...its broken, thats why its not supported. 
> But thats not forever. People out there are working on it....I was asking if 
> anyone knew what its status was. Or even possibly start communicating with 
> those people(whoever they are) and help out if I can.

It's the new 'tumbler' audio.  Iain might have something that works on it
eventually.  Just be happy dmasound (in benh's tree anyhow) doesn't get
stuck in a loop like it did when machines w/ it first came out :)

> I am using oms/omi from livid. Its free. Its also not perfect as there is 
> some blue tinting and kinda a funny verticle "lining" on screen. That being 
> said, I didn't expect it to run at all, so I figure I am quite ahead of the 
> game.

I'll have to give that a shot, thanks.

> xine compiled(and runs). but the libcss pluggin kept telling me xine didn't 
> support ppc(obviously some miscomunication there =)). Unfortunately without 
> the libCSS plugin xine hangs my ibook hard. Maybe with it too, but since I 
> can't compile it....

Sounds like what ogle does here.

> Tried ogle....but just after it stats drawing the gui to the screen it freaks 
> out....then again, its just a supper alpha release, so my expectations 
> weren't all that high. Potential though.

Ah, I can open up a dvd, get the first screen and then it hangs.

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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