Re: Gnome2, Sound, MPlayer

[Drew Tomlinson]

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To: Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: Gnome2, Sound,  MPlayer


 On Thursday 03 April 2003 02:30 pm, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
  Although I've had success with FBSD as a server, I'm a complete newbie
when
  it comes to using FBSD as a desktop.  I've completed a fresh install of
  FBSD 5.0-RELEASE, and the latest versions of Gnome2, and XWindows.  I
  learned that I needed 'options pcm' in my kernel config to get sound
  working so I added it and recompiled.  Now I can here event sounds when
  using Gnome2.
 
  Next I installed mplayer via the port.  I added '-m WITH_GUI=yes' to the
  portinstall command to get gmplayer built as well.  I can run gmplayer
and
  get picture but no sound when connected to a Windows Media 8 stream.  I
  also tried loading a VCD.  When I attempted to play this, it would only
  play track 2.  The other tracks, one and three, produced nothing.  Track
2
  produced picture and a loud hiss for sound.  I found it interesting
that
  the volume control icon on the top right of my screen seems to have no
  control over the volume, whether it's the loud hiss when playing the
VCD
  or the Gnome event sounds.  I've Googled but have not found any info
that's
  at my newbie level.
 
  Can anyone tell if my problems are related to Gnome or mplayer?  Any
  suggestions for further testing?  Any links how to get sound working or
any
  good newbie links for Gnome in general would be appreciated.

 I take it you've read the sound section in the handbook?   Sound in an
 application often does not use the freebsd way of adjusting volume.
 see mixer(8)
 then also see:
 http://mired.org:8080/5.0-not-production.html

 not directly related to your sound problem, but good to keep in mind.

Thanks for your reply.  I've done some more testing and have found the sound
quality to be poor when playing mp3s using mp3blaster from the command
prompt as well.  So this tells me that Gnome or mplayer is not my problem.
I can play audio CDs and wav files just fine both in gnome and at the
command prompt.  So I don't know what to do next, except maybe go
to -CURRENT and see if the audio magically works there.

Thanks,

Drew

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Gnome2, Sound, MPlayer

[Drew Tomlinson]

Although I've had success with FBSD as a server, I'm a complete newbie when
it comes to using FBSD as a desktop.  I've completed a fresh install of FBSD
5.0-RELEASE, and the latest versions of Gnome2, and XWindows.  I learned
that I needed 'options pcm' in my kernel config to get sound working so I
added it and recompiled.  Now I can here event sounds when using Gnome2.

Next I installed mplayer via the port.  I added '-m WITH_GUI=yes' to the
portinstall command to get gmplayer built as well.  I can run gmplayer and
get picture but no sound when connected to a Windows Media 8 stream.  I also
tried loading a VCD.  When I attempted to play this, it would only play
track 2.  The other tracks, one and three, produced nothing.  Track 2
produced picture and a loud hiss for sound.  I found it interesting that
the volume control icon on the top right of my screen seems to have no
control over the volume, whether it's the loud hiss when playing the VCD
or the Gnome event sounds.  I've Googled but have not found any info that's
at my newbie level.

Can anyone tell if my problems are related to Gnome or mplayer?  Any
suggestions for further testing?  Any links how to get sound working or any
good newbie links for Gnome in general would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Drew

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