[gentoo-amd64] Sound missing in KMPlayer, etc.

[gentoo-amd64] Sound missing in KMPlayer, etc.

[Mark Haney]

Not exactly an amd64 question, but close I think. I just rebuilt my HP 
Compaq R4000 to get rid of my Fedora install on this box.  Everything 
works great now, except, I still can't get the touchpad working, I went 
through the kernel config very carefully and enabled all necessary 
kernel options. 

Also, before, KMplayer worked great on this box, but now for some reason 
I'm not getting any sound out of it.  Plus, some Windows Media files 
that would play on the previous install don't play now.  Any ideas?


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[gentoo-amd64] Re: Sound missing in KMPlayer, etc.

[Duncan]

Mark Haney posted <436FB25B.4070805@ercbroadband.org>, excerpted below, 
on Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:00:27 -0500:


> Also, before, KMplayer worked great on this box, but now for some reason 
> I'm not getting any sound out of it.  Plus, some Windows Media files 
> that would play on the previous install don't play now.  Any ideas?

kmplayer (at least several generations of ~amd64, not sure about stable)
now has the option of using xinelib, mplayer, or gstreamer.  (You may have
to recompile with the proper USE flags to get that option.)  Here, I've
has poor luck with mplayer, but xine has worked well.  Haven't tried
gstreamer.  mplayer is just too hard to get the right plugins, it seems. 
xinelib "just works" a larger percentage of the time without fiddling with
extra plugins.  YMMV, but I read a similar post from someone else
somewhere, and knew I was having issues with mplayer, and sure enough,
xinelib worked far better for me.  Perhaps mplayer could have been made to
work, but I didn't have to "make" xinelib work at all, it just did, once 
merged (and with kmplayer remerged to use it).

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Sound missing in KMPlayer, etc.

[Mark Haney]

Duncan wrote:

>Mark Haney posted <436FB25B.4070805@ercbroadband.org>, excerpted below, 
>on Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:00:27 -0500:
>
>
>  
>
>kmplayer (at least several generations of ~amd64, not sure about stable)
>now has the option of using xinelib, mplayer, or gstreamer. 
>
The previous install of kmplayer didn't include xine at all, and for the 
record I use amd64 not ~amd64.  I don't recall the version so that's of 
course no help at all.  Have you had much success viewing windows media 
WMV files?  If so, what USE flags did you use?

> (You may have
>to recompile with the proper USE flags to get that option.)  Here, I've
>has poor luck with mplayer, but xine has worked well.  Haven't tried
>gstreamer.  mplayer is just too hard to get the right plugins, it seems. 
>xinelib "just works" a larger percentage of the time without fiddling with
>extra plugins.  YMMV, but I read a similar post from someone else
>somewhere, and knew I was having issues with mplayer, and sure enough,
>xinelib worked far better for me.  Perhaps mplayer could have been made to
>work, but I didn't have to "make" xinelib work at all, it just did, once 
>merged (and with kmplayer remerged to use it).
>
>  
>


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[gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Sound missing in KMPlayer, etc.

[Duncan]

Mark Haney posted <4370AE85.20001@ercbroadband.org>, excerpted below,  on
Tue, 08 Nov 2005 08:56:21 -0500:

> The previous install of kmplayer didn't include xine at all, and for the 
> record I use amd64 not ~amd64.  I don't recall the version so that's of 
> course no help at all.  Have you had much success viewing windows media 
> WMV files?  If so, what USE flags did you use?

WMV?  No.  I had originally believed it binary-only 32-bit only, but saw
a 64-bit plugin for it for IIRC xmms recently (audio only??).  I merged
it, but haven't come across anything to test it since then (tho I've not
been /looking/).

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Sound missing in KMPlayer, etc.

[Richard Freeman]

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Duncan wrote:
> 
> WMV?  No.  I had originally believed it binary-only 32-bit only, but saw
> a 64-bit plugin for it for IIRC xmms recently (audio only??).  I merged
> it, but haven't come across anything to test it since then (tho I've not
> been /looking/).
> 

Isn't WMV just a container format (like OGG/AVI/etc)?  If so, it depends
on the codec used.  I've had some work on 64-bit xine/mplayer, and some
only on 32-bit (since they use binary windows DLLs).  Obviously if the
codec is closed-source and only available as a 32-bit DLL it won't work
in 64-bit land.

I'm sure you can create a WMA/Theora/Vorbis file just as you can
probably create an OGG/Sorenson file - the former would probably work
fine on amd64, and the latter probably would be spotty.  It isn't the
container that matters as much as the codec...
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