[linux-audio-user] xmms does not play on multiface

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Tue Oct 3 16:16:41 EDT 2006


On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 22:05 +0200, Dragan Noveski wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 21:43 +0200, Dragan Noveski wrote:
> >   
> >> Lee Revell wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 20:48 +0200, Dragan Noveski wrote:
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>>>>>> in my ~/.asoundrc and use `hdsp_analog` as output device in xmms.
> >>>>>>>       
> >>>>>>>           
> >>>>>>>               
> >>>> please, can you tell me how do you set this?
> >>>> in my case "options-settings-configure output plugin" only accepts 
> >>>> something
> >>>> which begins with  "/", like "/dev..."what ever, but it does not 
> >>>> accepts  "hdsp_analog"?
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>> Sounds like XMMS is set to use the OSS output plugin.  You need to
> >>> configure it to use ALSA.
> >>>
> >>> Lee
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> no, there is libjackxmms.so working as a output plugin, xmms plays on my 
> >> usb device or the onboard sound, only it does not plays with multiface.
> >> if i choose "libalsa.so" as the output plugin, than i get the error 
> >> message from xmms, that the device is already in use -jack is using it. 
> >> than i can configure that xmms plays on another device, b.e. usb, and 
> >> than everything works, so it just want not to use the same device as 
> >> multiface is using.
> >> does it makes sense?
> >>     
> >
> > You're not going to be able to use XMMS with ALSA output while JACK is
> > running as the HDSP lacks hardware mixing.  If you're using XMMS with
> > the JACK output plugin then you can't use devices defined in .asoundrc -
> > you have to configure XMMS to output to JACK ports.
> >
> > Lee
> >
> >
> >   
> ok, that sounds interesting: no using libalsa.so while jack is runing,
>                                              no able to use libjackxmms.so,
> 
> so how i do adjust the xmms to connect to jack.
> usualy i do this with "jacklaunch", but on multiface it does not run.

No idea.  It should work with libjackxmms.

Maybe you should try a newer player, with native JACK support.  XMMS has
been unmaintained for years.

Lee




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