Red Hat 8.0 XMMS plugin prob
 

Hello everyone, first time posting here. I installed Red Hat 8.0 last week and I also have obtained the XMMS plugin needed for mp3s to work, but whenever I minimize or maximize a program by clicking on it in the panel, there is a pause in my music (this problem resembles the Windows problem when too many programs are running.) The funny thing is that when I click on a program in the panel when XMMS is running, my CPU spikes.
After this little pause when pulling up a program, the music continues to play with no pauses until I click on something else to maximize or minimize it.


Any ideas?

Nick

Try another player? Maybe check out mp3blaster, it runs in a console, and might consume less resources to actually cause a hiccup.

Don't worry, it's still graphical, it uses ncurses.

Cool

That's the funny thing. I did not have a problem with 7.3. I have a AMD 1.2GHZ with 512RAM. I just don't get it.

The weird thing is when I use Musicmatch Jukebox under Wine, it doesn't have the skipping problem (and wine takes up resources more resources than XMMS)

Nick

That is wierd then. Might be a flaw this the sound server. Try another win manager, and see if it still does it. Try one of the lesser ones, like window maker or flux or something (not KDE or Gnome).

Cool

I am having a similar problem. I have just installed redhat 8.0 and my mp3s wont run in xmms which is the default media player in it. Can you tell me from where can I get the plugin?

The answer to that question has been said many times in the last days, try searching the forum before you ask something. Anyway, you can get it on the xmms site. (-> www.xmms.org)

Red Hat 8.0 has quite a few bugs in it (from what I hear). I have not used it myself becuase they are now starting to incorporate Non-GPL'ed software into their OS and that is not what Linux is about. I use Mandrake 9.0 and XMMS runs like a charm.

-AquamaN

I fixed the XMMS
 

I fixed it. I went under Options and changed the Output to OSS Driver 1.2.7. The output was aRts Driver 0.4 Once I changed it to the OSS driver, the problem went away.