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what is Alsa, Oss, and Artsd?
Beep Media Player and AmoraK won't work either, so i don't htink it's XMMS either
applicatoins like GAIM will play sound tho
the Audio i/o plugins i have are:
>Bonk player .12
>CD Audio Player 1.2.10
>FM Radio player 1.5
>MikiMod Player 1.2.10
>ModPlug Player
>MXDRV Player 0.1.2
>NSF Player 0.0.3
>Ogg Vorbis Player 1.2.10
>Quicktime Player 0.1.0
>SAP Player 0.4
>Sega Genesis GYM Plugin 0.9.1
>SHN Player 2.4.0
>SPC Player 0.2.1
>Tone Generator 1.2.10
>Wave Player 1.2.10
ALSA is the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture, and is widely used software that many distros use to manage audio. Have you run alsaconf to see if ALSA detects your soundcard, and have you run alsamixer to adjust your volume levels? There's a good chance that some of the volume levels may be defaulted to mute. Additionally, each sound app has its own volume control, so if you're using XMMS (for example) be sure that XMMS's volume control is turned up sufficiently (XMMS uses a horizontal slider bar, which is below the text box that show's what's playing) -- J.W.
J.W. - XMMS won't allow me to add files into the the playlist window, so i don't think that it's a volume hting. Realplayer will play all my files, but only one at a time with no library or playlist sort of thing.
as for MPlayer, the installation guide link gave me a 404 Page Not Found error.
as for Helix Player, I installed it, but can't figure out how ot run it.
Click on the upper left hand corner of XMMS, and a drop down menu will appear that will let you open a file, open a directory, open a location, etc. If you've got a bunch of mp3's in a directory called, say, /home/mp3 then select 'Open Directory', then navigate over to /home/mp3, then click OK -- J.W.
You don't have a plugin to play mp3 files (according to a list showed at the top). Try to play some WAV (or even better OGG) first. If it works try to search the web for MPEG something plugin for XMMS.
Distribution: Slackware 9, Redhat 9, Debian, and Sun 2.8
Posts: 1
Rep:
I had the same (kind of) problem in Fedora Core 4. I couldn't even play OGG files on default install. Here's what I found:
Make sure you have the updated libogg, libvorbis, and xmms (my versions are listed below)
look in /usr/lib/xmms/Input/ and make sure all the lib*.so are located there (you should see an MP3, OGG, Wav, etc)
I'm not sure if it is Fedora(redhat) specific but I have a librh_mp3.so which handles my MP3 playing. You also may need the associated lib*.la files copied to that /usr/lib/xmms/Input directory. I found xmms does not play OGG files unless libogg.a is located in the /usr/lib/xmms/Input directory (you can copy it here from /usr/lib)
here are my versions:
libogg-1.1.2-2
libvorbis-1.1.0-2
libvorbis-devel-1.1.0-2
xmms-1.2.10-16
A quick search on the web found that you probably need the mpg123 libraries instead for SuSE
usr/lib/xmms/Input/libmpg123.a
usr/lib/xmms/Input/libmpg123.la
usr/lib/xmms/Input/libmpg123.so
Indeed it's a library issue. With Suse 9.3, you don't get the libraries to play dvd's, mp3's, etc. for legal reasons. But as soon as you install, just use YaST (YOU) to update your multimedia libraries and you are set.
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