XMMS

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@sheflug.co.uk>]

Hi

Tried asking this question elsewhere and didn't get any answers...

Anyone have any ideas of what this might be about ?  I've installed 
Debian Sarge into my workstation.  It's really nice.  Look forward to 
turning some work out with it.

Everything seems to work even after updating to the 2.6.8 kernel and 
associated Nvidia drivers.  The sound works fine with my old JVC 
tuner and Kscd.  Sounds really good with my Ensoniq Audio PCI card.

There's just an annoying problem with XMMS.  It won't play my MP3 or 
Ogg Vorbis based music.  XMMS itself is working but no music comes 
out of it.  I notice that at the bottom of the XMMS config file there 
is a line which points at a sound plugin.... 
output_plugin=/usr/lib/xmms/Output/libOSS.so....   there are also 
some others in ....  /usr/lib/xmms/Output....

libALSA.so
libarts.la
libarts.so
libdisk_writer.so
libOSS.so


My own system uses Alsa.  I've tried libALSA.so but that doesn't work 
either.  If no sound was coming out of the speakers I would suspect 
the kernel but since I can use other applications to play music it 
would seem to be the this is related to XMMS ?  Bottom of the XMMS 
config file below........


equaliser_band9=0
output_plugin=/usr/lib/xmms/Output/libALSA.so
disabled_iplugins=
url_history_length=0
generic_title_format=%p - %t
skin=/usr/share/xmms/Skins/FB2
filesel_path=/home/richard/mp3

Is it something to do with libarts ?


-- 
Richard

www.sheflug.co.uk