[gcompris-devel] sound

[Bruno Coudoin]

Le lun 03/02/2003 à 20:58, pgeorges a écrit :
> I have 2 kinds of problems :
> 1. /dev/dsp busy : I think this is because I use too much other audio 
> devices (xawtv, xmms), which don't release dsp quicly enough;
> 2. I use KDE, and sometimes I can't hear wav sounds (it seems that some 
> are too short, and are dropped).
> 
> This seems to work under gnome, but who still uses gnome (except some 
> Sun afficionados) ?
> 
Take care because KDE is mostly unusable in school configuration. It
uses too much memory and we have to be sure gcompris can run on
lightweight window manager like XFCE.

> A work around may be to convert all wav files to ogg ones, and use our 
> own API. What do you think of this ?
> 
I agree, you can do it if you want.

Bruno.

> Bruno Coudoin wrote:
> > That's confusing but easy to fix.
> > Gcompris uses the gnome api to play wav sounds. So you need to allow
> > gnome sounds in the gnome control panel.
> > That's it.
> > 
> > Bruno.
> > 
> > 
> > Le sam 01/02/2003 à 19:33, pgeorges a écrit :
> > 
> >>It seems that gcompris_play_sound can't play any sound (/dev/dsp busy 
> >>error). I use KDE and LM 9.0.
> >>I changed train.wav to train.ogg and made some changes to soundutil.c, 
> >>which fixed the problem for the railroad board.
> >>Could anyone confirm that the bug is not due to my configuration ?
> >>If it is general, I will move all .wav files to .ogg
> >>
> >>Pascal
> 
> 
> 
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