Kclug Digest, Vol 24, Issue 9

JB Reefer spikespeigel42 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 17 16:35:04 CDT 2006 

This happens to me all the time, its the sound system not recognizing
amarok because its buggy (or something like that.) What you need to do
is play a video file in totem, because that somehow makes the sound pop
back on again.

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>    1. RE: Graphics files (Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO)
>    2. Re: Graphics files (Brandon Holtsclaw)
>    3. RE: Graphics files (Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO)
>    4. RE: Graphics files (Gene Dascher)
>    5. RE: Graphics files (Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO)
>    6. RE: Graphics files (Jason D. Clinton)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:37:24 -0500
> From: "Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO" <brian.kelsay at kcc.usda.gov>
> Subject: RE: Graphics files
> To: <kclug at kclug.org>
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>  I have Kubuntu Dapper 6.06 AMD64 at home and have loaded/ran Easyubuntu
> in order to get added repos, multimedia, etc.  I have system sounds
> working and I get audio and video from a DVD playing in the drive, but
> .mp3 files give no sound when played in Amarok.
> 
> Crweb had me install some lib stuff that should have added support, but
> "w32codecs" said it had no installation target, like it had changed it's
> name.  He linked me to a .deb, which wouldn't install because it was
> meant for i386 and not x64.
> 
> I'll check out the following links tonight to see if that sheds more
> insight.
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Jason D. Clinton
> >Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 10:42 AM
> 
> >Or on Debian:
> >
> >http://www.debian-multimedia.org
> >
> >Or on the ever talked-about Ubuntu:
> >
> >https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats
> >
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:28:43 -0500
> From: Brandon Holtsclaw <brandon at imbrandon.com>
> Subject: Re: Graphics files
> To: "Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO" <brian.kelsay at kcc.usda.gov>
> Cc: kclug at kclug.org
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> > .mp3 files give no sound when played in Amarok.
> >
> > Crweb had me install some lib stuff that should have added support, but
> > "w32codecs" said it had no installation target, like it had changed it's
> > name.  He linked me to a .deb, which wouldn't install because it was
> > meant for i386 and not x64.
> 
> its not w32codecs that amarok uses do this and all your trubbles will be
> over ( as far as mp3's for amarok )
> 
> " sudo apt-get install libxine-extracodecs "
> 
> - --
> Brandon Holtsclaw
> imbrandon at kubuntu.org
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:58:12 -0500
> From: "Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO" <brian.kelsay at kcc.usda.gov>
> Subject: RE: Graphics files
> To: <kclug at kclug.org>
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>  
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Brandon Holtsclaw 
> >Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 9:29 AM
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> >>
> >> .mp3 files give no sound when played in Amarok.
> >>
> >> Crweb had me install some lib stuff that should have added support, 
> >> but "w32codecs" said it had no installation target, like it had 
> >> changed it's name.  He linked me to a .deb, which wouldn't install 
> >> because it was meant for i386 and not x64.
> >
> >its not w32codecs that amarok uses do this and all your 
> >troubles will be over ( as far as mp3's for amarok )
> >
> >" sudo apt-get install libxine-extracodecs "
> >
> >- --
> >Brandon Holtsclaw
> >imbrandon at kubuntu.org
> 
> That is one of the things I added.  Still no sound out of Amarok.  It
> acts like it is playing though.
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:03:36 -0500
> From: "Gene Dascher" <gedascher at multiservice.com>
> Subject: RE: Graphics files
> To: <kclug at kclug.org>
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> >>> .mp3 files give no sound when played in Amarok.
> 
> >>" sudo apt-get install libxine-extracodecs "
> 
> >That is one of the things I added.  Still no sound out of Amarok.
> >It acts like it is playing though.
> 
> This is probably an obvious question, but have you checked your WAVE
> output levels in alsamixer, or whatever mixer you are using?
> 
> Gene
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:27:12 -0500
> From: "Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO" <brian.kelsay at kcc.usda.gov>
> Subject: RE: Graphics files
> To: <kclug at kclug.org>
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>  
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Gene Dascher
> >Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 10:04 AM
> 
> >
> >>>> .mp3 files give no sound when played in Amarok.
> >
> >>>" sudo apt-get install libxine-extracodecs "
> >
> >>That is one of the things I added.  Still no sound out of Amarok.
> >>It acts like it is playing though.
> >
> >This is probably an obvious question, but have you checked 
> >your WAVE output levels in alsamixer, or whatever mixer you are using?
> >
> >Gene
> 
> I have Kmix and I have tried raising all the levels up, but it makes no
> difference.
> AC '97 level was off and at bottom as well as 3D, Mono, Surround, Mic,
> Input.  PCM was up.
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:30:06 -0500
> From: "Jason D. Clinton" <me at jasonclinton.com>
> Subject: RE: Graphics files
> To: "Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO" <brian.kelsay at kcc.usda.gov>
> Cc: kclug at kclug.org
> Message-ID: <1153150206.13081.117.camel at desktop1.localdomain>
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> On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 10:27 -0500, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO
> wrote:
> > I have Kmix and I have tried raising all the levels up, but it makes no
> > difference.
> > AC '97 level was off and at bottom as well as 3D, Mono, Surround, Mic,
> > Input.  PCM was up.
> 
> On Debian based distros there is a curses script called "alsaconf" which
> will automatically choose the correct primary audio device and set the
> mixer levels correctly.
> 
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