Hi again,
after some days experimenting I think I have fixed the problem... I installed the helix engine, as suggested (wow, it depends on a lot of things, dude!) but the Banshee player hangs just after it starts and I don't seem to be able to include the helix engine into amaroK... These are my helix packages: helix-banshee-plugins-extra-0.11.2-17 helix-banshee-engine-gst-0.11.2-17 helix-banshee-engine-helix-0.11.2-17 helix-dbus-server-0.3.0-26 helix-banshee-0.11.2-17 helix-banshee-plugins-default-0.11.2-17 Then someone suggested me to try VLC so I installed it... and surprisingly VLC also puts that sound glitch... so it must be some library-related problem as some other players do their work just fine... What solved my problem was... you won't believe it... closing Skype! Yes, I know; it's not a serious answer/solution. After shutting down Skype, amaroK started working again with no sound glitches at all! don't ask me why... As I need Skype I started it again... and now everything seems to be working smoothly... and yes, I also closed both applications and started Skype first and then amaroK ... it just works now! Well... maybe some of the libraries I installed during this process has solved the issue as a side effect... I'll post again if this problem comes back... Cheers, Martin ----- Original Message ---- From: Jonathan Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, June 1, 2007 9:00:17 PM Subject: [opensuse] Re: amaroK sound glitches Martin Mielke wrote: > Hi, > > well, I don't download from those P2P networks... all my music comes from > original CDs :-P > > No, by now I only use xine, which has been performing perfectly some days ago > on the desktop at work... that one is a Pentium dual-core with 4 GB RAM... I > guess it's more that enough to play music... :-) > > Again, as for the engine... I almost can foresee that helix won't help me out > either because, as I said, I can play files or streams perfectly using > MPlayer, for example... Anyway, I'll give it a try... Actually, for me Helix works just fine. I'm pretty sure my problem (just cutouts in a playing CD) are due to "only" 1gb of RAM and amaroK trying to do too much with too little. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545469 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
