I'm using mandrake 9.1, and seem to have problems playing back, all movie formats, including AVI, MPG, i can open the movie and it has video, but no audio, it's completely silent?

I have used it under the different WMs and found under Gnome it plays sound, but only when i run it from the konsole. However i have started using enlightenment (which is brillant) and i would like Xine to play with sound, which'd be nice!

I've ran it in the konsole under enlightenment and the konsole says something about can't find ALSA and and switches to OSS, and tries to use /dev/dsp, which i doesn't exsist when i had a look in the /dev, instead there is /dev/sound.

So any ideas on how to solve this problem?

Do other applications with sound work OK under enlightenment?

If so, does it work if you create a symbolic link /dev/dsp that points to /dev/sound or whatever your sound device is?

XMMS and everything else works (except MIDI, can't find /dev/squencer (similar problem i guess) )

How would i do a symbolic link?

Do you use an alsa or oss sound driver ?

if
lsmod | grep snd

yields something, then it's probably an alsa driver....

in xine, you need to configure which sound driver to use. There is a set-up dialog. You need to change the "experience level" if you can't see the sound config. Your currently loaded sound driver should appear in the dialog box.

If you want to create the OSS devices for future use, the commands are:

To create a symbolic link:

ln -s <link name> <target name>

so in your case, ln -s /dev/dsp /dev/sound, if /dev/sound is indeed your audio device.

STOP PRESS - I just noticed that on my system, /dev/dsp is a symbolic link, pointing at /dev/sound/dsp. Check whether your /dev/sound isn't in fact a directory and, if it is, whether there's a device file called dsp inside it. If so, link it as:

ln -s /dev/dsp /dev/sound/dsp

Even if none of this helps, you'll want to know one day how to make symbolic links, so that day may as well be today!

Jee thanks,

I think it's an ALSA driver, says so in hardware configuration on mandrake control centre.

as for configuration of xine it says there is no device to configure, whats also strange is that the help, Faq, and readme tabs are empty? there're blank?

I'm going to have to do a new mandrake install anyway: because XP freezes on me in random places, a mate found the same problem, it was because of XP being on a NTFS, mandrake overlapped a little, or something so i'm doing a clean install of XP on a FAT32 partition, which means it'll overwrite the MBR , but that doesn't matter because i'm gonna increase mandrake's partition size, it was getting a little low on a 2.2gb partition :P

thanks for the help

How can I change the experience level in xine?

Any help appreciated.

MacLin

In the setup dialog (spanner icon in the bottom-left corner on the default xinetic skin) it's the second option on the first tab page (gui setup).

Thanks for the reply. Can't believe I missed that option!

Much appreciated,
MacLin

I tried to create the /dev/sequencer device using the syntax given below, but mknod complained about not having enough parameters.

what I put in:

mknod /dev/sequencer 14 1

what it gave back:

mknod: wrong number of arguments
Try `mknod --help' for more information.

I would like to be able to play MIDI files so any help on this would be appreciated.