packman repo on opensuse 13.1 - which priority is appropiate

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hello dear linux-experts

well i have a freshly installed opensuse:

while i noticed that Amarok does not work - no sounds at all and that

  • no youtube clip does spit out any sound

i decided to have a closer look at the packman-things.

well out of this collection -

Index of /suse

i took the following link;

Index of /suse/13.1

and this did the trick…

btw - now have a closer look at the fresh installed opensuse 13.1

hmm - what do you say bout the levels - all of them are 99 - is this a good choice!?

or should i change some things in the priority!?


martin@linux-c5sz:~> zypper lr -uP
#  | Alias                     | Name                               | Aktiviert | Aktualisieren | Priorität | URI                                                                                  
---+---------------------------+------------------------------------+-----------+---------------+-----------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1 | openSUSE-13.1-1.10        | openSUSE-13.1-1.10                 | Ja        | Nein          |   99      | cd:///?devices=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-TSSTcorp_CDDVDW_SN-S083C_m1L3456789KLMNOP,/dev/sr0
 2 | packman                   | packman                            | Ja        | Ja            |   99      | [Index of /suse/13.1](http://packman.jacobs-university.de/suse/13.1/)                                       
 3 | repo-debug                | openSUSE-13.1-Debug                | Nein      | Ja            |   99      | [Index of /debug/distribution/13.1/repo/oss](http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/13.1/repo/oss/)                       
 4 | repo-debug-update         | openSUSE-13.1-Update-Debug         | Nein      | Ja            |   99      | [Index of /debug/update/13.1](http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/13.1/)                                      
 5 | repo-debug-update-non-oss | openSUSE-13.1-Update-Debug-Non-Oss | Nein      | Ja            |   99      | [Index of /debug/update/13.1-non-oss](http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/13.1-non-oss/)                              
 6 | repo-non-oss              | openSUSE-13.1-Non-Oss              | Ja        | Ja            |   99      | [Index of /distribution/13.1/repo/non-oss](http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1/repo/non-oss/)                         
 7 | repo-oss                  | openSUSE-13.1-Oss                  | Ja        | Ja            |   99      | [Index of /distribution/13.1/repo/oss](http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/13.1/repo/oss/)                             
 8 | repo-source               | openSUSE-13.1-Source               | Nein      | Ja            |   99      | [Index of /source/distribution/13.1/repo/oss](http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/13.1/repo/oss/)                      
 9 | repo-update               | openSUSE-13.1-Update               | Ja        | Ja            |   99      | [Index of /update/13.1](http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.1/)                                            
10 | repo-update-non-oss       | openSUSE-13.1-Update-Non-Oss       | Ja        | Ja            |   99      | [Index of /update/13.1-non-oss](http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.1-non-oss/)                                    
martin@linux-c5sz:~>

btw - i added packman to get the amarok started - but i was not lucky.
Amarock does not spit out any sound - also any youtube clip does not!?

What elese is needed!?

love to hear from you

greetings

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On 2014-01-03 00:36, dilbertone wrote:

> hmm - what do you say bout the levels - all of them are 99 - is this a
> good choice!?

Yes.

> or should i change some things in the priority!?

I do, but I doubt it is necessary or that affects anything - no vendor change.

> btw - i added packman to get the amarok started - but i was not lucky.
> Amarock does not spit out any sound - also any youtube clip does not!?

Because the problem is not related to packman. You simply have a problem with sound.

pulse, not pulse, kde/gnome, etc.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Elessar))

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Did you install the codecs? 13. Multimedia Codecs - Install Support For MP3, DVD, WMA, WMV, MOV etc.

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On 2014-01-03 01:16, anika200 wrote:
>
> Did you install the codecs? ‘13. Multimedia Codecs - Install Support
> For MP3, DVD, WMA, WMV, MOV etc.’ (http://opensuse-guide.org/codecs.php)

No sound with youtube means either flash or html5. Neither use the “codec” set.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Elessar))

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While I am sure you are right I was following up on the Amarok side of things.
It has been my personal experience in the past that Amarok would appear unresponsive and produce no sound if I were missing some codec and since the op never exactly specified what he was trying to play in Amarok I offered my response. Maybe it is helpful, it certainly can not hurt to ask. :wink:

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On 2014-01-03 02:36, anika200 wrote:

> While I am sure you are right I was following up on the Amarok side of
> things.
> It has been my personal experience in the past that Amarok would appear
> unresponsive and produce no sound if I were missing some codec and since
> the op never exactly specified what he was trying to play in Amarok I
> offered my response. Maybe it is helpful, it certainly can not hurt to
> ask. :wink:

Oh, absolutely, if amarok is broken that’s the track to pursue :slight_smile:

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Elessar))

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I use 99 with all repos

Amarok is fine (except for some trouble with online sources, which I disabled)

My guide: https://forums.opensuse.org/blogs/caf4926/opensuse-13-1-multi-media-restricted-format-installation-guide-149/

If you have more than one sound device, you may need make sure the right one is select in kmix and in the system settings for multimedia/audio

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Carlos E. R. wrote:

>> or should i change some things in the priority!?
>
> I do, but I doubt it is necessary or that affects anything - no vendor
> change.

I have third party repositories set to a lower priority so that when i want
to install something using yast it wil pick the software from the official
repositories first, instead of picking the latest version from whatever
repositorie i have enabled.

–
Chris Maaskant

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On 2014-01-04 09:51, Chris Maaskant wrote:
> Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
>>> or should i change some things in the priority!?
>>
>> I do, but I doubt it is necessary or that affects anything - no vendor
>> change.
>
> I have third party repositories set to a lower priority so that when i want
> to install something using yast it wil pick the software from the official
> repositories first, instead of picking the latest version from whatever
> repositorie i have enabled.

Yes, you are correct.

On the other hand, you could setup packman to a higher priority (lower number) so that when you pick
it multimedia program it comes from there. Assuming that packman only does multimedia, it should
work better.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Elessar))

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On Fri, 03 Jan 2014 04:16:02 GMT, caf4926
<caf4926@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
>I use 99 with all repos
>
>Amarok is fine (except for some trouble with online sources, which I
>disabled)
>
>My guide: http://tinyurl.com/l2gk4mf
>
>If you have more than one sound device, you may need make sure the right
>one is select in kmix and in the system settings for multimedia/audio

Absolutely. I found that my first video card to have HDMI output also
appears as a sound device. Took me a while to find that one. I got lucky
when i noticed something different in a volume control applet, which led
me right to it.

?-)