Re: Trouble with sound
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 08:14:01AM -0500, Jens Gecius wrote:
> Wouter Eerdekens <retuow@xs4all.be> writes:
>
> > - when I want to play an MP3 or other sound file in GNOME, my audio player
> > hangs completely (xmms, mpg123, wavp, ...)
> > - when I stop the GNOME Display Manager, I can play any file I want ??
>
> Try setting you xmms output to esd, that's usually started with gnome
> and is a sound daemon to mix different sound streams.
>
OK, XMMS works now.
> You can verify if esd is running while gnome is up via `ps ax|grep esd`
>
Yep, esd is running
But I still cannot use mpg123 or wavp. Running mpg123 in verbose mode doesn't generate an error message though.
When I run the command
mpg123 filename or mpg123 -v filename,
I get the following output:
High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layer 1, 2 and 3.
Version 0.59q (1999/Jan/26). Written and copyrights by Michael Hipp.
Uses code from various people. See 'README' for more!
THIS SOFTWARE COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
and it hangs like this forever...
Wouter
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