David Walser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> --- Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - it releases after a number of seconds (30 secs > > last time I > > checked, it may have been patched in the meantime) > > > > - then it means that xmms "steals" the DSP, and next > > KDE action > > will not produce a sound, which leads to the > > newbie asking > > herself why > > I'm aware of the current behavior. For normal use, > one actually just doesn't get sound from KDE all that > often. I'm just trying to say this isn't as bad in > practice as it may be in theory. Maybe, maybe not. At the beginning of arts, I had a large number of "bug" reported because xmms would not start correctly saying "busy dsp" because they clicked on "xmms" before 30 secs after kde2 started. I don't want to come back to this broken behaviour. If only KDE had a decent multimedia player. > > I'd say that if user modified menu entry, he's > > clever enough to > > know how to change output plugin from xmms > > preferences dialog. > > Granted. I don't see how that's not beside the point, > but I could be missing something. I probably didn't understand why you talked about users modifying their menu entries then.. > > Does it map well to the menu system? A.k.a does the > > following > > patch is enough (ignoring soundwrapper pb)? > > > > --- /usr/lib/menu/xmms Fri Jan 11 07:51:05 2002 > > +++ /tmp/xmms Tue Feb 5 16:22:12 2002 > > @@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ > > section="Multimedia/Sound" \ > > title="Xmms" \ > > longtitle="Multimedia Player" \ > > -command="soundwrapper xmms" \ > > +command="soundwrapper xmms -e %f" \ > > > > > mimetypes="video/mpeg;audio/x-mp3;audio/x-ogg;audio/x-mpegurl;audio/x-wav" > > \ > > icon="xmms.xpm" > > Well, I don't know. Unfortunately I can't test that, > because just as xmms-arts doesn't work on my system, > soundwrapper (aka artsdsp) xmms doesn't work either. Is "xmms -e %f" for KDE ? or for another WM ? > Which is another concern, we have no idea why it works > for some people and not others, and I think the > behavior you listed at the top of the message is way > less evil than xmms doesn't work, ever, at all, no > matter what, because it freezes when you try to play > anything with it. I think this is related to xmms-arts being old and bugged but it seems no more maintained anywher :-(. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
