4 Aug
2006
4 Aug
'06
5:33 p.m.
On Friday 04 August 2006 20:33, Arnold Krille wrote:
2006/8/4, Florin Andrei
<florin(a)andrei.myip.org>rg>:
Hi Arnold. Seeing another post suggesting using aoss for the webbrowsers, I
changed the command for opera to aoss opera. I'm using a realplayer plugin on
it for the BBC radioplayer from bbc.co.uk. But what I am finding with aoss,
is that there is now quite a lot of crackling on the sound. A bit like the
sound of electrical sparks.
Now I can listen to Internet radio, and listen to music at the same time,
which isn't easy, but at least it proves that starting opera with aoss works.
The problem I had was listening to Internet radio, using realplayer, and
using Gaim at the same time. The realplayer plugin would grab the soundcard,
and Gaim had no sounds. When I ended the Internet radio session, Gaim would
play all it's sounds from the beginning of it's session. all a bit bizarre,
and quite funny.
Nigel.
This is using an Ensoniq card (ens1371 driver)
Somehow XMMS and Firefox (or rather Firefox media
plugins) seem to
compete over sound resources.
What's the cause and how can I fix it?
The reason is that Flash and xmms both use old OSS for sound, which
allows only one app to access the soundcard at a time. Configure your
XMMS to use alsa and start firefox inside an aoss-environment with the
command "aoss firefox" instead of plain "firefox".
And bug the authors of every app that is still using OSS as default on
linux...
Arnold