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fs4000

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-10-15

Posts: 20

Problem with aRts (aKode and xine)

Hello,
I'm new to Archlinux and I have to say: It's a great distro!
But I've got one problem with aRts. Every time KDE wants to play a sound, the screen freezes a second and short sounds are not played.
I found out that it's a problem of xine which doesn't play vorbis files correctly (even on other distros). However these other distros don't use xine to play sounds in aRts. Instead aKode is used. So I installed aKode, but there was no change. I didn't find a relevant mcop-file in /opt/kde/lib/mcop/.
I think there is missing the aRts aKode plugin.
What are your opinions?

Last edited by fs4000 (2007-10-15 08:20:16)

Mikko777

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From: Suomi, Finland

Registered: 2006-10-30

Posts: 837

Re: Problem with aRts (aKode and xine)

Afaik, arts sucks just dont use it...?

plenty of other, better options. (dmix)

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fs4000

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-10-15

Posts: 20

Re: Problem with aRts (aKode and xine)

Can KDE play its system notifications through dmix?
Of course I'm looking forward to Phonon. But in other distros aRts works.

Damnshock

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Registered: 2006-09-13

Posts: 414

Re: Problem with aRts (aKode and xine)

Can KDE play its system notifications through dmix?

It cannot. The notifications won't work unless you set to run a program playing a sound (aplay /whatever/you/want).

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fs4000

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-10-15

Posts: 20

Re: Problem with aRts (aKode and xine)

Is there nobody using aRts and having the same problem?
Can anyone try to play /opt/kde/share/sounds/KDE_Beep.ogg through aRts and tell me if it was played?
I can't imagine that I'm the only one because on other PCs it doesn't work, too. Probably a solution would be using aKode as decoder for vorbis, like many other distros do since a few years.
Thanks for your help!

fs4000

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-10-15

Posts: 20

Re: Problem with aRts (aKode and xine)

I think the cause must be that kdemultimedia doesn't contain any aKode things (even the new 3.5.8). The source does.
I'm going to build the package myself tomorrow.

Does anyone know why aKode is left out?

Last edited by fs4000 (2007-10-16 18:14:43)