Xubuntu, Sound, mplayer. Help!
Hi I am still trying to fathom out MP3 playback on my ThinkPad 600. Sorry if I seem to ignore peoples suggestions, but I'm not. I must have just missed the reply. Anyway. I trying installing mplayer from Synaptic, and it appears to me to be Movie Player, which is already installed in Xubuntu. Correct me if I am wrong. Now I am back to getting no sound at all. I still get the crackling of the speakers on boot - like it is initialising them. However, it will not play any type of audio file. I have tried MP3, MID and WAV in both Movie Player and Exaile and no sound at all. I tried playing with Aumix and it looks like it is set ok, I also raised all the levels in Mixer for all instances. I also tried playing an audio CD, to no avail. You see the timers going but no sound comes out. Any help please? Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad 600 running Xubuntu 10.04 & Apple iBook G3 running OSX 10.4. _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now
Simon, On 13 May 2010, at 11:23, Simon Royal wrote:
I am still trying to fathom out MP3 playback on my ThinkPad 600. Sorry if I seem to ignore peoples suggestions, but I'm not. I must have just missed the reply. Anyway. I trying installing mplayer from Synaptic, and it appears to me to be Movie Player, which is already installed in Xubuntu. Correct me if I am wrong. Now I am back to getting no sound at all. I still get the crackling of the speakers on boot - like it is initialising them. However, it will not play any type of audio file. I have tried MP3, MID and WAV in both Movie Player and Exaile and no sound at all. I tried playing with Aumix and it looks like it is set ok, I also raised all the levels in Mixer for all instances. I also tried playing an audio CD, to no avail. You see the timers going but no sound comes out. Any help please?
Here is a link to the archive which has Wayne's original reply as to the best way to diagnose what the problem is: http://lists.alug.org.uk/pipermail/main/2010-April/027324.html I would advise you to try Wayne's suggestions and let us know the outcome, so we can help you further. PS. How's the G3 iBook? http://bit.ly/a5xwdR -- David Reynolds david@reynoldsfamily.org.uk
David Nice cross over! I read Waynes reply. I just got an MP3 to play using mpg123. It played no problems. Therefore sound must be configured correctly. So why does nothing else play in any other app. Is there a GUI front end for mpg123, so I dont have to use command line each time. PS. The iBook is doing great, but I really have lost interest in Macs David. My wifes uses the iBook which was supposed to be an upgrade to this ThinkPad, but I cant seem to leave it nor Xubuntu alone. Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad 600 running Xubuntu 10.04 & Apple iBook G3 running OSX 10.4. ----------------------------------------
From: david@reynoldsfamily.org.uk Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 11:30:21 +0100 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] Xubuntu, Sound, mplayer. Help!
Simon,
On 13 May 2010, at 11:23, Simon Royal wrote:
I am still trying to fathom out MP3 playback on my ThinkPad 600. Sorry if I seem to ignore peoples suggestions, but I'm not. I must have just missed the reply. Anyway. I trying installing mplayer from Synaptic, and it appears to me to be Movie Player, which is already installed in Xubuntu. Correct me if I am wrong. Now I am back to getting no sound at all. I still get the crackling of the speakers on boot - like it is initialising them. However, it will not play any type of audio file. I have tried MP3, MID and WAV in both Movie Player and Exaile and no sound at all. I tried playing with Aumix and it looks like it is set ok, I also raised all the levels in Mixer for all instances. I also tried playing an audio CD, to no avail. You see the timers going but no sound comes out. Any help please?
Here is a link to the archive which has Wayne's original reply as to the best way to diagnose what the problem is:
http://lists.alug.org.uk/pipermail/main/2010-April/027324.html
I would advise you to try Wayne's suggestions and let us know the outcome, so we can help you further.
PS. How's the G3 iBook? http://bit.ly/a5xwdR
-- David Reynolds david@reynoldsfamily.org.uk
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On 13-May-10 10:23:16, Simon Royal wrote:
Hi I am still trying to fathom out MP3 playback on my ThinkPad 600. Sorry if I seem to ignore peoples suggestions, but I'm not. I must have just missed the reply. Anyway. I trying installing mplayer from Synaptic, and it appears to me to be Movie Player, which is already installed in Xubuntu. Correct me if I am wrong. Now I am back to getting no sound at all. I still get the crackling of the speakers on boot - like it is initialising them. However, it will not play any type of audio file. I have tried MP3, MID and WAV in both Movie Player and Exaile and no sound at all. I tried playing with Aumix and it looks like it is set ok, I also raised all the levels in Mixer for all instances. I also tried playing an audio CD, to no avail. You see the timers going but no sound comes out. Any help please?_
Simon Royal
This may or may not help, since I don't use Ubuntu, but it may at least be relevant. I encountered a similar problem with Debian installed on a laptop (Advent 8117). It turned out that the default sound system at boot was OSS; I sussed out somehow (I've now forgotten how) that it would be worth trying to switch to ALSA. That succeeded. So now, after any new reboot, I run 'alsaconf' (by hand as root) and then it works (it takes a few minutes to complete). If I don't run it, then I get no sound. I don't know why OSS doesn't work! Hoping this helps, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 13-May-10 Time: 11:45:44 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
Hi, On 13 May 2010 11:45, Ted Harding <Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
On 13-May-10 10:23:16, Simon Royal wrote:
However, it will not play any type of audio file. I have tried MP3, MID and WAV in both Movie Player and Exaile and no sound at all. I tried
Run mplayer on the command line and have a look at the output it generates.
(Advent 8117). It turned out that the default sound system at boot was OSS; I sussed out somehow (I've now forgotten how) that it would
No one should really be using OSS (context = sound) anymore. But if one runs mplayer on the command line, it will let you know if it's using oss or alsa or some other sound backend. It's also possible to switch which one it uses - which makes it a nice debugging tool. Srdjan
Srdjan I just played the same file using mplayer in command line and it played fine. The only reference to audio device I could see was AO: [pulse] So I am presuming it is using PulseAudio., which under Mixer is set to maximum volume. Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad 600 running Xubuntu 10.04 & Apple iBook G3 running OSX 10.4. ----------------------------------------
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 11:52:41 +0100 From: todorovic.s@googlemail.com To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] Xubuntu, Sound, mplayer. Help!
Hi,
On 13 May 2010 11:45, Ted Harding wrote:
On 13-May-10 10:23:16, Simon Royal wrote:
However, it will not play any type of audio file. I have tried MP3, MID and WAV in both Movie Player and Exaile and no sound at all. I tried
Run mplayer on the command line and have a look at the output it generates.
(Advent 8117). It turned out that the default sound system at boot was OSS; I sussed out somehow (I've now forgotten how) that it would
No one should really be using OSS (context = sound) anymore. But if one runs mplayer on the command line, it will let you know if it's using oss or alsa or some other sound backend. It's also possible to switch which one it uses - which makes it a nice debugging tool.
Srdjan
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Ted I just tried to run alsaconf and couldn't get it to work. I also tried it using sudo. It just says command not found. Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad 600 running Xubuntu 10.04 & Apple iBook G3 running OSX 10.4. ----------------------------------------
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 11:45:47 +0100 From: Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: RE: [ALUG] Xubuntu, Sound, mplayer. Help! CC: simonroyal@live.co.uk
On 13-May-10 10:23:16, Simon Royal wrote:
Hi I am still trying to fathom out MP3 playback on my ThinkPad 600. Sorry if I seem to ignore peoples suggestions, but I'm not. I must have just missed the reply. Anyway. I trying installing mplayer from Synaptic, and it appears to me to be Movie Player, which is already installed in Xubuntu. Correct me if I am wrong. Now I am back to getting no sound at all. I still get the crackling of the speakers on boot - like it is initialising them. However, it will not play any type of audio file. I have tried MP3, MID and WAV in both Movie Player and Exaile and no sound at all. I tried playing with Aumix and it looks like it is set ok, I also raised all the levels in Mixer for all instances. I also tried playing an audio CD, to no avail. You see the timers going but no sound comes out. Any help please?_
Simon Royal
This may or may not help, since I don't use Ubuntu, but it may at least be relevant.
I encountered a similar problem with Debian installed on a laptop (Advent 8117). It turned out that the default sound system at boot was OSS; I sussed out somehow (I've now forgotten how) that it would be worth trying to switch to ALSA. That succeeded. So now, after any new reboot, I run 'alsaconf' (by hand as root) and then it works (it takes a few minutes to complete). If I don't run it, then I get no sound.
I don't know why OSS doesn't work!
Hoping this helps, Ted.
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