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Kuhndog86
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 Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 9:42 pm Post subject: XMMS is confused [solved] |
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Hi guys, I am attempting to play an mp3 file via xmms. When i try to play it, i get an error saying:
| Code: | | failed to open audio output: ALSA 1.2.10 output plugin |
When I go under preferances and change the output to OSS it says:
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failed to open audio output: OSS Driver 1.2.10
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I can play the file fine using the kde arts output plugin. Sound works in kde, but not the ALSA output in XMMS. WTF is up with that? My user is in the audio group too. I am using the snd-intel8x0 driver on a pile of crap dell optiplex gx270.
Thanks
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Hayl
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| Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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is media-plugins/xmms-alsa emerged on your system?
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lfe
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:00 am Post subject: Re: XMMS is confused |
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The reason is probably that arts is blocking access to the ALSA driver for other applications. Did you try shutting down arts, and try again with the alsa plugin?
Good luck...
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Kuhndog86
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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| well, I know now that it is not just xmms because i get the same errors from vmware and point2play. how do I go about shutting arts down? |
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lfe
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 8:10 pm Post subject: Shutting down ARTS |
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Open the KDE Control Center, Sound & Multimedia -> Sound System; uncheck "Enable the sound system".
The caveat is that from this point on, regular KDE applications won't produce sound any more (you still can have notifications work with an external player though, but it's an other subject). Well, you can't have everything, can you  )
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Kuhndog86
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Yep, That was it. Thanks much |
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merlinux
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| Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 9:34 am Post subject: |
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Hi!
I have the same message error of Kuhndog86 , but i am able to play mp3s with xmms-alsa plugin anyway! why?
I'm sure i'm using alsa because i have 5.1 audio system and i had mapped the 6 channels with .asoundrc to use it.
So the unique way to hear all the 6 channels is using alsa ......and i hear sound from any speaker.
In other way my problem is to eliminate the initial error message because the rest seems to work fine.
Thanks to all
P.S.
Sorry for my english , i'm not native emglish!  |
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soth
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I have the same error, but kde is not installed on my machine.
I have enlightenment. It's the same error wether I have esound started or not...
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onesandzeros
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| Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 8:08 am Post subject: Re: XMMS is confused [solved] |
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| Kuhndog86 wrote: | | Code: | | failed to open audio output: ALSA 1.2.10 output plugin |
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I was seeing this, but then I emerged xmms-alsa-1.2.10-r3 (up from r2, iirc). This seems to have solved the problem. The config panel for the plugin is considerably different.
Then on other hand, I've changed some things on this system that could confuse the issue a bit. It *seemed* to me like a permissions problem, because it was an intermittent problem. To complicate this diagnosis, though, I switched to alsa and udev from oss and devfs all at once.
If the problem comes back even with the latest revision of the alsa plugin... I guess I'll just wipe this post.
Update, April 27, 2006: updating xmms-alsa did not solve the problem. I experience various weirdness with xmms. |
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