Bugzilla – Bug 116294
I cannot play music and videos
Last modified: 2006-06-13 10:40:41 UTC
I cannot do with amarok,xmms and kaffeine, all my hardware is recognized. I have downloaded from yast the next librarys: mad,w32codec,libvorbis,libtheora y divx codecs,incluide divx4linux. I would like that it will be solutionated,please i can not live without music in linux.. Jose
Can you play sound in general, e.g. does the following work: aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/test.wav
Just an idea, as I had the same problem using my hardware (onboard SiS Sound chip 7012) My solution was as follows: starting kmix changing to switches and activate them as follows: - Headphone Jack sense on - Line Jack Sense off The others in the list didn't make any change for me, but you might try to play with them too.
Are you trying to play videos with an MP3-audio-track? Did you check that your soundcard-configuration is working before, like Andreas said? (rcalsasound start && aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/test.wav). If not, this is a problem with your sound-driver, which is not unlikely with an onboard SiS-Chip... in this case you'll have to provide more information.
Perhaps I have the same error with a SBlive!. Amarok refuses to make a sound, but with aplay I can hear the wav-file. Strangely, when I play an mp3 in amarok, the progress bar moves way to fast, a song is over after perhaps 5 seconds. Then the next song is selected and played (a stupid amarok behaviour by the way, ruining all statistics since a lot of songs get "played" while the sound system is not working). I have an onboard sound chip, but I deleted its configuration in yast, so that aplay now selects the Sound Blaster
This sounds more like a problem with amarok (or even more likely with the used libraries) itself than with the sound-subsystem. Takashi: Is the assignment of this bug OK? Just to be sure, you could provide some line sof your syslog: % tail -200 /var/log/messages > messages.txt (after you tried to play a song or run a video) This might give us a clue. Please attach the log here, don't inline it.
Nothing is written to /var/log/messages. And amarok does not print anything to the console. But funnily, when clicking the X for closing the window of amarok, a system sound is played together with showing the dialog. juk in comparison refuses to play songs, which is not that much more helpful ... What actually *did* help, was installing the mad-packages from packman. Now I can use amarok to play mp3s.
It sounds like a typical blocking problem with OSS, which should have been in the latest version. Remember that helix engine is using OSS instead of ALSA unless you run it with aoss wrapper.
This seems similar to 118967. I have a similar problem - sound is crippled despite correct modules loaded. Command line stuff works perfectly; xine / arts etc won't load however.
Takashi, no activity here since long. Can we close this?
Yeah, the situation must have changed much in 10.1.