[K12OSN] Discussion on sound (not meant as a rant)

[David Hopkins]

I ended up recompiling from source with just the esd sound drivers as
suggested.  That seems to have solved the sound issue.  I also had to
correct the k12ltsp sound hack for flash (seems to be a mistake in the
variable name in the cron job, which was listed in another thread).

I still can't get gmplayer to work (mplayer with the gui), nor is
mplayerplug-in working correctly.  However, neither of these are essential
for the demo since Ryan just wanted to show that the Unitedstreaming content
can be played back as a movie once the actual clips were downloaded to the
local server.   To do this, I simply put an application launcher icon on the
teachers desktop.  Dragging and dropping a video file onto the icon launches
mplayer (not gmplayer) without the gui and the video works fine.  mplayer
can be completely controlled through keyboard shortcuts if needed but since
all that the teachers wanted was to play complete clips, this is ok for
now.  I also created a directory for saving the files so that the teachers
can share the clips and avoid duplicate downloads.

As for documentation, I will definitely document what works once I get the
gui and plugin working properly.

Sincerely,
Dave Hopkins


On 2/20/07, Petre Scheie <petre at maltzen.net> wrote:
>
> Dave-
> How did you finally fix the problems of playing the United Streaming
> content?  In the last episode that I caught, you were using mplayer, but
> sound was not working, as I recall.
>
> Petre
>
> David Hopkins wrote:
> > Final follow-up on this.
> >
> > Ryan (the tech coord) informed me that the demo of using United
> > Streaming went flawlessly last Friday. He was even able to show an ad
> > hoc presentation by one of the invited speakers that used both Windows
> > Media player and flash-based movies from a usb stick without any
> problems.
> >
> > Again, many many thanks to everyone for the assistance that let this
> happen.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Dave Hopkins
> >
> >
> > On 2/4/07, *David Hopkins* < dahopkins429 at gmail.com
> > <mailto:dahopkins429 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     A little more on the continue saga of getting mplayer with the gui
> >     to work.
> >
> >     mplayer runs solidly now, playing all the videos that I have tried
> >     from UnitedStreaming provided I start it from a terminal session.  I
> >     have not gotten either the gui interface nor the plugin to work
> >     properly.
> >
> >     GUI:  For the gui, it launches but the moment you start a clip, it
> >     freezes.  Now, the only clue I have is that if you try to then open
> >     a terminal session after launching gmplayer, the terminal session
> >     also freezes.  Is there a possibility that the gui is trying to
> >     write to std out and can't so it freezes?  If I execute a CTRL-C for
> >     the terminal window, I then get the prompt back, and can kill
> gmplayer.
> >
> >     Plugin:  The plugin shows as loaded, and shows that it is
> >     downloading/buffering, but then on playback, I do not get anything,
> >     no picture, no sound.
> >
> >     Sincerely,
> >     Dave Hopkins
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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