Since rc11.0 of openSUSE11.0 my Amarok player has no sound. Has anyone else
seen this. I have all the latest updates and I think everything
installed.When I click the icon it starts the into message but no sound. I
cannot get to the others screens to select anything.
All the KDE sounds work and Kaffine plays an Audio disk OK, I have a Nvidia
SB Live! sound card, and all the sound fonts installed for it. My system is
a dual boot and 10.3 Amarok works fine.
I had a similar kind of problem. The perpetrator turned out to be xine and only with mp3-files (for what reason I have really no idea) but upgrading from 1.1.12 to 1.1.13 from packman did the trick and now it’s working again nicely.
The Novell/SuSE-GmbH packaged versions of xine will not play mp3. So if one has the xine engine selected, and is trying to play mp3 with that version of xine, it will not work. However the packman packaged version of xine, together with the packman packaged application “mad”, if installed, will allow the packman packaged version of amarok to play mp3.
In this case, we have no information. I lost my crystal ball in the last stock market crash so I can’t see what is on the user’s PC. I have no idea if the user is trying to play ogg? mp3? wav? wma? I have no idea what sound engine is selected. … I have no idea which version of xine is in place.
Its very difficult to give precise guidance without more information.
Hmm, of course I should have mentioned that I do use the packman xine, which exactly made me wonder why it didn’t play mp3… Well, anyways, my problem sort of straightened itself out, but as you said, with the available info there’s no knowing does this relate to problem of the original author.
If you were using the packman packaged amarok, then in addition to needing the packman packaged xine, you also need the packman packaged “mad”, to play mp3.
Sure, I should have written is a less of a hurry. The thing was that I was able to play ms3 fine, then at some point something happened and xine (and thus amarok with xine engine) simply didn’t play them anymore. I was busy with other things so I didn’t even try to look what was going on and then an update from packman sorted it out…
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> Russbucket;1820659 Wrote:
>> 10.3 version:
>> amarok-xine-1.4.9.1-103.pm.1
>> amarok-yauap-1.4.9.1-103.pm.1
>> amarok-libvisual-1.4.9.1-103.pm.1
>> amarok-1.4.9.1-103.pm.1
>> amarok-lang-1.4.9.1-103.pm.1What files are you trying to play with
>> amarok? ogg? mp3? wav? wma?
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> What sound engine have you selected? xine? yauap?
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> I have amarok running in 11.0 with no problems (that I am aware of) and
> I can play mp3 and wav with no problems.
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> Can you check and get back to us?
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I have tried with both engines, same results, no sound. I changed the engine
in the Amarok settings menu. I also install real player this morning and it
is working.
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> I had a similar kind of problem. The perpetrator turned out to be xine
> and only with mp3-files (for what reason I have really no idea) but
> upgrading from 1.1.12 to 1.1.13 from packman did the trick and now it’s
> working again nicely.
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The version I have came from packman.
amarok-1.4.9.1-103.pm.1
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> vjm;1820690 Wrote:
>> I had a similar kind of problem. The perpetrator turned out to be xine
>> and only with mp3-files (for what reason I have really no idea) but
>> upgrading from 1.1.12 to 1.1.13 from packman did the trick and now it’s
>> working again nicely.
>
> The Novell/SuSE-GmbH packaged versions of xine will not play mp3. So
> if one has the xine engine selected, and is trying to play mp3 with
> that version of xine, it will not work. However the packman packaged
> version of xine, together with the packman packaged application “mad”,
> if installed, will allow the packman packaged version of amarok to play
> mp3.
>
> In this case, we have no information. I lost my crystal ball in the
> last stock market crash so I can’t see what is on the user’s PC. I have
> no idea if the user is trying to play ogg? mp3? wav? wma? I have no
> idea what sound engine is selected. … I have no idea which version of
> xine is in place.
>
> Its very difficult to give precise guidance without more information.
>
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Sorry about the incomplete info. I am trying to play a wav file and also the
stram radio stations. I just sent an answer about the engines. I need to
check on mad but I understood that was only needed for MP3.
upscope, you need to provide the information I asked in a previous post.
Note the Novell/SuSE-GmbH packaged version of libxine is broken for proprietary multimedia (such as mp3, wma, … etc …) but the Packman packaged version, with the correct accompanying Packman packaged apps is not.
Also, you need to tell us what type of file you are trying to play.
Else any recommendation I give is shooting in the dark, and I won’t do that.
Anyway, someone else can chime in now. I’m off for 2 days (starting tomorrow) on a business trip, and will not be able to help.