javaikky
August 29th, 2008, 11:25 PM
Edit : I accidently put this in the wrong section! sorry. Is there any way for me to move this ? Or should I post fresh in the multimedia forum .
I'm fairly new to the Linux side of the world, but I've been heavily involved with IT, and Windows for many years, and I consider myself above average in just about everything but Linux lol.
I don't usually like to have to ask for help, but I'm completly stumpped and don't know what to do.
I am using 8.04 and I have an XI-FI extreme audio card, and rather than go with Alsa, using OSS seemed to be the easier path.
My first 8.04 install went very well, I had the sound work in just about everything but .WMV. I had all my applications from work running ( Remedy, Lotus Notes 8.01, Juniper network connect ect) with no problems.
However, during my quest to get WMV files to play correctly, I inadvertently screwed something up and broke my sound completely.
With nothing left to do, I backed up, and reinstalled the OS.
I proceeded just as before, installed OSS, went through all the configs described in this article "http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4874981&postcount=2".
I did nothing different from the first time, but for some reason I can get no sounds while playing any video. Not Flash, or any other format.
I've scoured these forums, but I have been unable to find any solution, at least not one I am able to understand.
I've tried multiple players, VLC, MPlayer, Gnome Mplayer, Totem, Kaffiene, Movie Player, etc but nothing is working.
I go to system/preferences/sound/ and I set everything to auto detect, and everything will test out ok .
However I do notice, that OSS is not in the list. I find this very odd, as if I select any of the options aside from auto detect, the test will fail .
Please if at all possible help me.
I have completely made the switch to Linux, and I haven't looked back till now.
Any info/advice is greatly appreciated.
Either way, anyone who reads this post have a great holiday, and try not to eat to much on Monday.
Kind Regards,
Mike
PS: I did replace the libaudio file with the OSS version.
I'm fairly new to the Linux side of the world, but I've been heavily involved with IT, and Windows for many years, and I consider myself above average in just about everything but Linux lol.
I don't usually like to have to ask for help, but I'm completly stumpped and don't know what to do.
I am using 8.04 and I have an XI-FI extreme audio card, and rather than go with Alsa, using OSS seemed to be the easier path.
My first 8.04 install went very well, I had the sound work in just about everything but .WMV. I had all my applications from work running ( Remedy, Lotus Notes 8.01, Juniper network connect ect) with no problems.
However, during my quest to get WMV files to play correctly, I inadvertently screwed something up and broke my sound completely.
With nothing left to do, I backed up, and reinstalled the OS.
I proceeded just as before, installed OSS, went through all the configs described in this article "http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4874981&postcount=2".
I did nothing different from the first time, but for some reason I can get no sounds while playing any video. Not Flash, or any other format.
I've scoured these forums, but I have been unable to find any solution, at least not one I am able to understand.
I've tried multiple players, VLC, MPlayer, Gnome Mplayer, Totem, Kaffiene, Movie Player, etc but nothing is working.
I go to system/preferences/sound/ and I set everything to auto detect, and everything will test out ok .
However I do notice, that OSS is not in the list. I find this very odd, as if I select any of the options aside from auto detect, the test will fail .
Please if at all possible help me.
I have completely made the switch to Linux, and I haven't looked back till now.
Any info/advice is greatly appreciated.
Either way, anyone who reads this post have a great holiday, and try not to eat to much on Monday.
Kind Regards,
Mike
PS: I did replace the libaudio file with the OSS version.