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archerdave

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Registered: 2011-07-22

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] No sound playback in Cinelerra

I am using Cinelerra-cv ( the "pacman -S cinelerra-cv" version) and when I try to play a video in the timeline the audio does not play and I get the following error:

AudioOSS::open_output: No such file or directory

The sound works in other applications just fine and I had this same exact problem in Ubuntu 11.04. So do I need to install or configure something? or is this just a bug in Cinelerra?

Last edited by archerdave (2011-07-23 19:55:48)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] No sound playback in Cinelerra

Maybe you need to install or configure OSS https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OSS

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.v … eral/12599
Something like: Settings > Preferances > Playback : Use ALSA audio driver

Last edited by karol (2011-07-22 23:54:55)

archerdave

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Registered: 2011-07-22

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] No sound playback in Cinelerra

Maybe you need to install or configure OSS

On my system I am using KDE4 which I believe requires PulseAudio and I have found out that OSS and PulseAudio conflict with each other.
However I did some research and I found a solution on the PulseAudio article of the ArchWiki to make OSS programs work with PulseAudio.

As mentioned in the Wiki I installed ossp:

pacman -S ossp

after install, I ran the ossp daemon:

rc.d start osspd

then I ran Cinelerra using the padsp command:

padsp cinelerra

and the sound plays in Cinelerra!
So as it turns out I just needed to install or configure somthing.