I did not know about the API compatability issue ... that would explain a lot of problems that I'm having. :)
Given what you've said, how about this: -- Is there an elegant way to get gnome-applets2/kdemultimedia/et. al. to build? I have the "unknown architecture" problem with the gstreamer in the tree. I'd like to try out GNOME as I do not like how slow KDE is. Right now I'm using xfce4 as my desktop, and I may stick with this. KDE makes my 2.8GHz Athlon 64 system seem like a P500 running Windows XP. -- I know about the sample rate output option in many applications (mpg123, KDE arts, etc). Not all applications have this, and some applications' resampling gives me aliasing artifacts in the output (mpg123 in particular). It also seems more "elegant" to have all applications' streams admixed in one place. I suppose there is no real reason to waste my time with this, though. -- I have not made ports, as I have not had the time to study the ports subsystem in enough detail, but gstreamer-0.10.4 and the base plugin tarball compile without the slightest modification--no configure flags, even. I'm getting back into using OpenBSD after a 4-year break from basically everything related to computers/networking, so I'm rusty, to say the least. I also never got into programming much, and have to re-learn a lot of shell scripting, etc (zsh looks great, I wish I knew about that years ago). These things come intuitively to me (I used to be a systems/network administrator in a former life, so I have "core competence", but I'm by no means advanced relative to many/most in the OpenBSD community). Thanks for your/everyone's patience with me; if I wanted as much software availability as possible I'd just give up and install windows or linux, but the quality and coherence of OpenBSD is just too seductive. I'd rather spend my time learning the most worthwhile OS. On 4/11/06, Jacob Meuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 01:34:10PM -0400, Blair Sadewitz wrote: > > I use esound with esound-enabled applications (mpg123), and arts KDE > > apps (amarok in particular). For some reason, the esd output option > > in the KDE control panel does not work (I'll get the error message > > when I go back home). Also I _think_ I am using akode, but I do not > > even know how to tell it is enabled. I'm on amd64, so I had to > > install gstreamer-0.10.4 manually to get amarok to compile (it works > > flawlessly, just not with esd). > > did you build all of the ports that depend on gstreamer against > gstreamer-0.10.x? considering that gstreamer-0.10 is not API > compatible with gstreamer-0.8, and gstreamer-0.10 was released > _after_ some of the versions of the ports in the tree that depend > on gstreamer ... > > also, how are you using gstreamer-0.10? do you have any audio > output plugins installed? you have made ports for > gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10? gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10? > > > My question: does anyone here have a setup in which they use a > > diverse selection of audio applications which all end up sending their > > output through the same daemon? Not only do I enjoy having the > > ability to "multiplex" audio streams, but given that I use auich(4) > > and its sample rate is locked to 48000khz, I have to use an output > > daemon to resample streams with different bit rates. > > you don't _have_ to. many audio output programs support setting > the output sample rate. I suggest reading the documentation > for whatever audio output programs you use, and either set the > output sample rate in configuration files or make aliases in > your shell. > > > I notice esddsp is not included in the esound port, and I assume this > > is because OpenBSD's audio interface is not compatable with it (could > > it somehow be made to work with OSS emulation?). > > there are some problems with OSS emulation. it should be avoided > if possible. > > -- > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- "What is the practical application of a million galaxies?" --Alan W. Watts
