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Slackware 13 -- music, video, voice?

Fish Kungfu
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Join date: 29 Aug 2007
Posts: 4
11-30-2009 08:20
I am running Slackware 13 (32 bit) with Fluxbox. I can hear ambient (wind) and UI sounds, but I can't hear streaming music. Has anyone gotten streaming music working with Slackware 13?

Of course, I would like to get video and voice working, but for now, I'd be happy with just streaming music. :-)

Thanks very much for any advice......~~Fish~~

My hardware: Dell XPS M1710.

lspci returns the following audio device: 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)

And then....
bash-3.1$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_seq_dummy 2464 0
snd_seq_oss 29792 0
snd_seq_midi_event 5980 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 47984 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 6088 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 37728 0
snd_mixer_oss 14300 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_hda_codec_idt 56156 1
snd_hda_intel 23624 3
snd_hda_codec 53788 2 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 6816 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 68128 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 19108 3 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 50820 15 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 5824 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 7972 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
Boroondas Gupte
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Join date: 16 Sep 2005
Posts: 186
12-01-2009 03:52
I don't know about slackware specifically, but in general, you'll need gstreamer 0.10 as well as the gst-plugins needed to play back the respective streams. (Try with gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=http://the.stream.s/url , where you get the stream's URL by enabling the "Advanced" menu (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-D, that's letter d, not delete), then enabling menu "Advanced" > "View Admin Options" and finally looking at menu "World" > "About Land", tab "Audio".)

If this doesn't work, you're probably missing plug-ins. If it does work, but the stream won't playback within SL, make sure you have playback enabled in the Preferences and watch the console if there are any error messages when trying to start the stream.
Fish Kungfu
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Join date: 29 Aug 2007
Posts: 4
[SOLVED] Streaming music in Slackware 13 with Fluxbox
12-02-2009 17:43
Boroondas...

Thanks very much! You gave me just the clue I needed. Streaming music now works for me in Slackware 13 with the Fluxbox window manager. I had to install the following, which I got from http://www.slackbuilds.org

faac,
faad,
gstreamer plugins good,
gstreamer plugins bad,
gstreamer plugins ugly,
libdv


Cheers!
~~Fish~~
Boroondas Gupte
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Join date: 16 Sep 2005
Posts: 186
12-03-2009 01:29
You're welcome :)
Fish Kungfu
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Join date: 29 Aug 2007
Posts: 4
[SOLVED (not quite--see below)] Slackware 13 -- Streaming Music and Video
12-03-2009 20:09
Just an update.....

For anyone who doesn't already have Streaming Music and Video working:

Version: Slackware 13.0 (32 bit)

1. I installed everything from the DVD except KDE. I prefer Fluxbox. :-)

2. Then I installed the following from http://www.SlackBuilds.org
I tried different combinations and it looks like everything
below is required.
-----------------------------------------------------
faac-1.28 (search in Slackware 13.0)
faad2-2.7 (search in Slackware 13.0)
gst-ffmpeg-0.10.4 (search in Slackware 12.2)
gst-plugins-bad-0.10.13 (search in Slackware 13.0)
gst-plugins-good-0.10.15 (search in Slackware 13.0)
gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.12 (search in Slackware 13.0)
libdv-1.0.0 (search in Slackware 13.0)

I hope this helps a Slacker or two enjoy Second Life with Slackware.
The next challenge is to get Voice working!

Cheers....
~~Fish Kungfu~~
Fish Kungfu
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Join date: 29 Aug 2007
Posts: 4
UPDATE: Good News -- Voice works, Bad News -- mov files don't
12-14-2009 10:47
GOOD NEWS: Voice Works Now in Slackware 13!
Voice works after installing Audacity from http://www.slackbuilds.org. Pay attention to the 2 dependencies: wxPython or wxGTK and libsndfile (I used wxGTK). My guess is, it was the libsndfile that fixed it, but I haven't uninstalled audacity and wxGTK to test that theory.

I also discovered that I can't have Seamonkey or XMMS running before I launch Second Life because they have already hogged ALSA and won't let Second Life client have it for voice. Just to be safe, I don't have any apps running before I launch SL. I also just launch "alsamixer" at the terminal to change output volumes, then press Tab key to adjust Capture input level.

BAD NEWS: .mov files/streaming doesn't work as I first thought it did. Other streaming movies do fine, but I dont have .mov streaming working yet. I have tried gstreamer, (g)xine, and mplayer, but no plugin works yet. Mplayer will play .mov files that I download, but the plugin crashes my web browser (SeaMonkey or Firefox), and still doesn't play mov files inworld. I'm still working on it!

Hope this helps 1 or 2 Slackers out there!
~~Fish~~