Voice finally works. Now no multimedia.

Using Cool SL Viewer 1.2.11, I have voice working and I can get Skype calls while I play: Yay!!!

Trouble is, I can't get multimedia sounds. Ambient sounds work, but no music.

If I disable OpenAL, I get music but no voice.

Any ideas on how to get both working?

Is your headset on a USB Audio connection or straight into the system? I think the easiest way is getting the headset on the USB side.

I'm having the same issue too. I have a USB microphone/headset but that is still not playing the music. Voice chat is working for once though. As far as I can tell, there is an issue with SL not sending out the audio to the right system and there is no way to change that - I can only change what the SLVoice uses for defaults. When possible, I have been doing a copy and paste of the music urls for the properties and using xmms to hear the streaming audio but too many places don't show the address. My gut feeling is it is trying to open a second sound channel and during it directly without going through the sound mixers. I uninstalled pulseaudio to see what would happen but things got worse. I think they need to add the sound choice option with multimedia like the one that exists with SLVoice so you can pick your output destination. MU

Yeah, I'm pretty sure music is trying to use the same channel at the same time as voice.

I'm sure you are right that it is trying to use the same channel as SLVoice. A few times, I have had ambient audio leek over to my headsets. I just wish we could select SL and SLVoice outputs separately.

Oh well, it's progress.

The best that can be done is remove any .openalrc or .alsoftrc file, so SL will default to the regular speakers. SLVoice can select any other device.

Multimedia support (streaming music and media) use GStreamer 0.11, and depend on GStreamer being properly configured on your system. Further, SL relies specifically on 32-bit GStreamer. 64-bit GStreamer installations will not work, even with 32-bit compatibility installed.

I'll check into it this weekend. I think I did some alsa gymnastics to get multiple sounds working so I may have to look over my whole sound setup.

Thanks.

Fortunately, it's a 32bit system with Gstreamer good, bad and ugly installed. Not sure which version. I may have to upgrade.

Thanks

Not as easy as you think... PulseAudio was briefly my friend and then my enemy on this; if you're using Pulse to accomplish this, it could be providing some potential complication.

You may want to compare how Debian Lenny sets up sound compared to how your distribution is setting up sound; I can confirm my plantronics USB headset works properly out-of-the-box on my Lenny laptop at the time of this writing.

If all else fails, there's a wine hack that involves binaries from the windows version that does also work...see the thread "How to make it just freaking work" for details.

I'm using gstreamer-0.10 with good, bad and ugly installed from lenny, in addition to pitfdll and w32codecs. Quicktime will not work without pitfdll and w32codecs. If you're on Debian, consider installing the omvviewer and msttcorefonts packages as well to satisfy a lot of dependencies for sl automatically (and give you a known good SL viewer if something goes bad with the official one and you don't mind not having voice).

Thanks. I use Arch Linux. Apparently there is a package in AUR, but I haven't tried it yet. I guess OMV is worth a shot.

Well, I checked my Gstreamer plugins and installed pitfdll. Still no multimedia. But I have reduced the errors to:

bus_callback:317: GST error: Resource not found.
bus_callback:317: GST error: Could not open resource for reading.
bus_callback:317: GST error: Resource not found.
bus_callback:317: GST error: Could not open resource for reading.

Went to a different sim and got a different error:

A Quicktime demuxer plugin is required to play this stream, but not installed.

Have gone back to Debian. Now using the Omvviewer. We'll see how that goes.

Still no streaming video. Emailed Robin, maybe she knows.

This is strongly indicative that gstreamer is not configured to use pitfdll or w32codecs properly, or that they're not installed.

The suggests for that package do not bring in non-free binaries like w32codecs and gstreamer-0.10-pitfdll by default.

Installed w32codecs. I'll test that later. I have everything installed that I can find. I'll keep trying.

Thanks everyone.