On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 18:43, C. Tresenriter wrote: > If I go through start>multimedia>sound, xmms will load up and after entering the URL > for the stream, it buffers the looks like it's playing - it shows a stereo signal > and the address - but there's no sound and the timer stays at zero. > > In addition, afterwards, it will not close not via the GUI or a right click and I > have to restart X. > > At the CLI, it works like I expect it to - I'm using 10.0 with the Official updates. > Has anyone else experienced this?
The problem lies with soundwrapper. When you use it from the CLI xmms interfaces directly with the soundcard device. When you start it from the menu it runs 'soundwrapper xmms'. As I understand it, soundwrapper allowed multiple programs to produce audio which was then transparently mixed by the KDE sound daemon. This allowed multiple channels before that functionality was implemented in hardware & kernel device drivers. Most likely you do not now need it. "soundwrapper is a way for applications that uses sound to be rerouted to use arts (the sound daemon for KDE) before going into the sound driver. This way, multiple applications that uses sound can be run at the same time (i.e. hearing those warning signals in gaim while playing your favorite mp3 in xmms). This is useful if you have a soundcard that doesn't support multi-channel sound sources right from the hardware (or if the linux sound driver for that hardware doesn't support multi-channel)." http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=12260 So essentially this is a bug which you must work around. The solution is to right click on the K and go to "Menu editor". In there locate the entry for xmms and remove the 'soundwrapper' text from the command. A.
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