XMMS huge delay before playing mp3

**aay** · 08-26-2003, 07:43 PM

Originally Posted by Stephen

XMMS worked fine with alsa also and if you put the soundblaster in you should install sndconfig version .69 not the .70 I have read posts in Debian User that the .70 is broken you will most likley need it to set up the sound configuration.

Stephen,

.70 is what is currently in Knoppix isn't it? If so, I hope Klaus will himself do a backstep.

**Stephen** · 08-26-2003, 08:17 PM

Originally Posted by aay

Stephen,

.70 is what is currently in Knoppix isn't it? If so, I hope Klaus will himself do a backstep.

I'm not sure I don't have knoppix on this computer and I checked the packages list it has a reference to sndconfig but I don't see it there.

Code:

ii  smpeg-xmms               0.3.5-2                  SDL MPEG Player Library - XMMS plugin
ii  sndconfig-knoppix        0.57-7                   Easy soundcard configuration
ii  sodipodi                 0.31-1                   Vector based drawing program
ii  sound-recorder           0.06-6                   Direct-to-disk recording and play-back programs.
ii  soundcardconfig-knoppix  0.5-2                    Starts sndconfig as root

It was just in couple of posts on DU so it could be one of those it's broken now as in it can't be installed because of unmet dependencies that was not there when the ISO was made and it may in fact be installable now if things have moved through to allow that.

**johns0n** · 12-31-2003, 04:43 PM

Hi , I hope this Questions is still alive

I had the same Prob, now solved, so here's my result:

XMMS is not the Problem, it's Konqueror an the Preview Option

Disable the Preview Options in the Konqueror settings and XMMS will work fine !

HTH

Good Luck to u all :O)

John

**mechgt** · 11-17-2005, 08:09 PM

First post... I've had similar problems with XMMS player. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. I'm new to Knoppix (first time with Linux was this week!) and was listening to mp3's on XMMS, worked fine. Then I was trying out some of the other players on the LiveCD (4.0.2) and when I went back, it quit working. It would just freeze up. I had to run ksysguard from Konsole to kill it.

The way I fixed it:
Open Control Center from the Knoppix menu
Expand 'Sound & Multimedia', and select Sound System
Place a check in Enable Sound System

Now XMMS works. Not sure what caused it to disable, or what really happened, but it stopped it from locking up and now works fine.