artsdsp and open office 2.0

[Stefan Westerfeld]

   Hi!

On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 12:56:36PM +0100, Rene Brinkhuis wrote:
> The media player within Open Office 2.0 is based on the JMF-java-software of 
> sun. Media within Open Office, specific sound, is used for presentations 
> using Open Office Impress.
> 
> A couple of java / sun / jmf url's:
> 
> http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf/reference/faqs/
> http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf/2.1.1/jmfdiagnostics.html
> http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf/mp3/download.html
> http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf/2.1.1/download.html
> 
> i would like to be albe to use artsdsp for OpenOffice 2.0, because now the 
> mediaplayer within Open Office blocks all audio. However, when starting 
> OpenOffice 2.0 through artsdsp, there is no sound coming from OpenOffice 2.0.
> 
> The platform used for this test is Mandrake 10.2, all updats, artsd 1.3.2.

I am no longer actively maintaining aRts, (for details see

  http://www.arts-project.org/doc/arts-maintenance.html

) so I'll also CC the kde-multimedia list in my reply.

If you want to fix the problem yourself (or somebody else wants to do
it), what I would recommend for debugging is using artsdsp -v. This will
output additional debugging information. At least it does so if the
preloading works properly (try it with a program that works with artsdsp
to see what debugging output to expect).

However, using artsdsp is more or less a hack, and if you want to have
something that works out of the box, aRts support should be added to
JMF/Java (or, another way of mixing sound other than aRts should be used
and supported by JMF/Java).

   Cu... Stefan
-- 
Stefan Westerfeld, Hamburg/Germany, http://space.twc.de/~stefan