Thank you everybody for the help. But I do have a few doubts related
to the topic.
Shishir>Usually, there is a wire from the CD-drive to the soundcard to
Shishir>feed analog audio-signals to the speakers. Even though your sound-card
Shishir>is not active, it may still be feeding the signal
Shishir>from the CD-drive to the speakers. That is the reason why you
Shishir>are able to play back audio CDs
Shishir>from gnome. There might be some other reason why it's not
Shishir>working in KDE. You'll have to look at the error messages to
figure that out.
Yes, there is a wire from my cdrom drive to my sound card. But what
intrigues me is, if I am able to play an audio cd directly then I
should be able to hear a sound file from the harddisk right? since
both the data has to be processed by the sound card to reach the
speaker and for that it has to recognise the correct driver. Is this
true?
Shishir> Newer kernel versions may also have the support (for the sound card).
That didn't work eaither as I upgraded to fedora core 2 (kernel 2.6)
and it shows the same problem - no sound card detected. I guess I have
to buy a new sound card. The reason I am shying from it is even though
the present sound card is an ISA variety, it is quite good in that
even windows 98 detects the card automatically (no drivers to be
loaded from floppys etc). And I have win 98 dual booted with linux .I
would have preffered removing win 98 all together but I have an
internel dial up modem (I brought a long time back) which I use for
checking my mail , is not supported by linux . :| Don't want to
shell out an extra 2000 bucks for an external modem as I am thinking
of getting broadband (may be bsnl ) soon.
Ritesh Raj Sarraf> For mplayer:
Ritesh Raj Sarraf> To play VCD: mplayer vcd://1
Ritesh Raj Sarraf> To specify cdrom device (say it's hdc)
Ritesh Raj Sarraf> mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/hdc vcd://1
Should I not mount the cdrom first?
I had not tried it that way though. I had copied the avesqrt.dat file
into my harddisk and then used the command :
$ mplayer -vo x11 avesqrt.dat //Which I guess was wrong :)
Somehow the command "$ mplayer <any sound file>" is giving an error
and hinting that i should use "-v0 x11" option with it instead (which
works).
A friend also gave me this tip which I share with all of you. I have
not tried it because I do not have lame installed. It is a little
round about though.
<!-- Start of tip -->
An easy way to convert VCD (Video CD) file into MP3. What you need are
just MPlayer and Lame. MPlayer is used to convert the VCD file to WAV
by using the PCM audio output, and then you can convert the WAV file
to MP3 by using Lame.
First, you have to convert it to WAV by using the command:
$ mplayer -ao pcm /path/to/vcd/avseq01.dat
MPlayer will play the VCD file like usual, but with no sound. Just
wait until it finished. You'll get a file 'audiodump.wav' that you can
convert to MP3 by using the command:
$ lame -h audiodump.wav newfile.mp3
Switch -h is used to get high quality MP3 file, but the filesize will be bigger.
<!-- End of tip -->
ravi
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