xmms & urls [solved]

casper · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 12:08 am Post subject: xmms & urls [solved]

I just discovered today that I cannot play urls in xmms anymore. If I have any on my playlist it will just skip them, and if I try to add one it just does nothing (no error, just won't add it).

When I start xmms I get "Message: fmt 5, channels: 2", which I do not remember getting before, then again I didn't run it in a terminal in a long time. I have emerged a bunch of xmms stuff recently (I believe revdep-rebuild did that), but it just seems to me like it doesn't know what to do with a url.

Any suggestions?

-Cos
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lduperval · Apprentice Joined: 14 Jun 2003 Posts: 189

I have the same problem. A couple of days ago, it was working. The things that changed since then:

I did an emerge sync, update world which installed a new X.org version
I installed entrance
I installed the mplayer plugin

I'm trying to emerge the mpg123 plugin, to see if that changes anything. If it doesn't, I'll re-emerge xmms to see.

L

mascanho · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:43 am Post subject:

yes its a plugin problem try emerging the plugin, it has been already posted somewhere in the forum
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casper · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:22 am Post subject:

yes I upgraded xorg too, but I don't see any relevance to this.

A plugin would make more sense, just not sure which one. I will probably re-emerge all.

Let me know if you find out which one. I still have a little while with glibc and kdelibs

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lduperval · Apprentice Joined: 14 Jun 2003 Posts: 189

I re-emerged the mpg123 plugin and now, all URLs give a "cannot connect to host" type of problem.

Next up, xmms itself.

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beandog · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:35 am Post subject:

If youre playing MP3s, make sure you do NOT have the mad plugin installed. It can't play remote streams. mpg123 can. Check your emerge -pv xmms and if you see "mad" in there, take it out. Or just look at your xmms prefs (ctrl p) and unload the mad plugin.
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lduperval · Apprentice Joined: 14 Jun 2003 Posts: 189

Booya! That was it! Disabled the plugin and all is fine in the world.

Thanks!

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casper · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:43 am Post subject:

i thought that might be it..thanks!
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alphalux · n00b Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 10

I simply did a emerge -va xmms-mpg123 and that fixed it. For me, it wasn't a problem with any of the plugins. This happened to me after an update as well. Thanks for giving me the clue people

mhill · Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 3:48 am Post subject:

Disabling the MAD plugin (and later unmerging xmms-mad) got it playing MP3 tracks from the Web again. However, it still won't load .m3u playlists. Any clue what's wrong?
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