Ever since I upgraded to the KDE 3.4.0 packages on alioth, aRts has been unable to play ogg vorbis files. I originally thought this was the issue with losing system notifications, but it's a problem with aRts as a whole. WAV and MP3 files play just fine.
For example, if I run: $ artsplay /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Window_Sticky.ogg the command returns, but no sound is played. Any app which uses aRts is affected. I can't play ogg files in noatun, amarok, kaboodle, and so on. They play fine in XMMS. It's not my settings, unless the defaults are broken. I created a test user and logged in as them- exact same problem. I also jacked aRts' verbosity all the way up and started it from Konsole. It spit this out when I issued the artsplay command: -- snip -- UnixManager: got notifyIO socketconnection created, fd = 9 search playobject, extension = ogg creating OGGPlayObject to play file /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Window_Sticky.ogg outputStream created OGGPlayObject_impl loadMedia OGGPlayObject_impl::getPlugin DecoderBaseObject_impl::streamStart play: 1 nukePlugin _STREAM_STATE_WAIT_FOR_END xrun!! xrun!! (The previous message was repeated 1 times.) -- snip -- These are the arts/ogg packages I have installed: libarts1 1.4.1-1 libartsc0 1.4.1-1 libarts1-mpeglib 4:3.4.1-1 libarts1-audiofile 4:3.4.1-1 libogg0 1.1.2-1 libvorbis0a 1.1.0-1 libvorbisfile3 1.1.0-1 libvorbisenc2 1.1.0-1 They're all the most up-to-date, and aside from the aRts packages, are stock sarge. I have tried purging all these packages (with --force-depends) and reinstalling, to no avail. I have also twiddled with every option in the Sound System control panel, disabling each feature one-by-one. It still fails. But here's where things get truly weird. If I decode the ogg file to WAV, aRts plays it fine. If I reencode it to MP3, it fails in exactly the same way as the original ogg. MP3s which I have ripped from my CDs play fine. Oggs ripped from CD do not play. So, the summary is: - Wavs play fine all the time - Oggs do not play at all - MP3s play, unless they're short sound-bites like the system notifications Has anyone else had this problem? I'm completely stumped, so any suggestions are greatly appreciated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
