xmms/mplayer oss plugin??

groovin · Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 8:10 am Post subject: xmms/mplayer oss plugin??

hi all, kinda late so sorry if i dont make sense...

i have gaim installed, sound works fine on it... when i run gaim verbose, i can see that its using OSS....

i installed xmms and mplayer, however i get no sound. options on xmms shows the output is set to alsa... there are no other output plugins (besides diskwriter, but i dont think that matters). sure, i hear that alsa is better than oss, but i dont care, i just want some sound. anywys, i fire up my other comp, and see that xmms has OSS Driver 1.2.10 libOSS.so as the output plugin... and it works fine...

all i did on both boxes was emerge xmms... but only one box seems to have the xmms oss plugin. so my question is, how do i get the oss plugin for xmms (and mplayer?)

many thanks

rezza · Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2004 12:25 pm Post subject:

Have oss in you USE flags when you emerge them.
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Aapzak · n00b Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 12

do you have oss specified in your USE flag? You can add oss to the USE flag in /etc/make.conf
You'd have to compile xmms again, but thats done in a minute.

I like OSS emulation over ALSA BTW. ALSA seems sloppier, OSS emulation seems less hard on my hardware. So go and compile with oss support.

BTW, use -v option in emerge to see USE options:

groovin · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 9:38 pm Post subject:

added oss to make.conf and recompiled... everything works!

thanks guys!