esddsp broken?

Rick · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Dec 2002 Posts: 141

Hi everyone,

For a while I was using esddsp to pipe all the sound from my browsers to esound (opera, seamonkey, konqueror, etc...) but it seems that it just doesn't work anymore. Whenever I try something like "esddsp opera" it just hangs when trying to play sound (with flash video's for example), and I'm sure esd is working properly since gstreamer and mplayer are playing correctly.

Anyone has any idea why it's failing?
I've also tried the --mmap and --mixer arguments but it doesn't really help.

Kernel: 2.6.17-gentoo-r5
Esound version: 0.2.36-r2

Thanks in advance

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Rick · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Dec 2002 Posts: 141

Anyone?

Can anyone atleast test if it's working for them?
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jeanfrancis · Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:24 am Post subject:

Hi !

Are the sound not working for all media (Flash, MPlayerplug-in, etc.)?

If this is a flash issue, what are you using as a flash player? I use the one Firefox installs automatically and the sound works fine without any trick (I have alsa-utils and esound installed).

I searched on the forum and found the following command:

Rick · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Dec 2002 Posts: 141

jeanfrancis · Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:33 pm Post subject:

Oh, I see !

Did you export the server information?

Rick · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Dec 2002 Posts: 141

Yes, I've exported the server information, that's where mplayer is getting it's data from.

xmms, mplayer, xine and gstreamer play without a problem.
However, doing something like this: "esddsp mplayer -ao oss" just doesn't work while "mplayer -ao esd" works without a problem.
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jeanfrancis · Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 10:20 pm Post subject:

Okay, I understand better the problem now... I'll take a deeper look at that... Esound was updated or the problem appeared by itself?

Rick · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Dec 2002 Posts: 141

I'm not really sure when it happened actually, the problem has been there for a couple of months now but I don't play too much sound from my browser so I wouldn't notice it soon anyway. I'm guessing that it stopped working around the time eselect-esd was introduced.
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jeanfrancis · Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:43 pm Post subject:

Okay, I didn't know about eselect-esd... I'm afraid I have no more ideas

Rick · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Dec 2002 Posts: 141

Anyone else perhaps?
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Rick · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Dec 2002 Posts: 141

Bump again :roll:

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jeanfrancis · Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 4:34 pm Post subject:

I can't believe that you are the only one using this...

Anyone please

jeanfrancis · Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:22 am Post subject:

* Bump *

I now experience this problem... I also now use ESOUND to stream my audio to a server, but I got an audioplayer that doesn't let me choose esd as an output...

jeanfrancis · Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:32 am Post subject:

Finally I found that I can pipe to esd editing a config file... (quodlibet audio player)... but esddsp still don't work for those who need it

Rick · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Dec 2002 Posts: 141

In the mean time I've also tried the nxesd package but still, no luck. It does the same as the normal esddsp package, nothing.

I'm gonna try and run it again with strace, perhaps that'll tell me something about what happends.
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Rick · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Dec 2002 Posts: 141

I've tried, but nothing useful....
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