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From: Dominique Michel <dominique.michel@×××××××××.ch>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [treecleaner] Last rites: media-sound/alsaplayer
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:19:32
Message-Id: 20060822201641.53755b0e@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [treecleaner] Last rites: media-sound/alsaplayer by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 BTW, alsaplayer is in the proaudio overlay now.
2 http://proaudio.tuxfamily.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
3 It is 2 versions, a -r5 with the last Debian fixes, and a broken gtk2
4 cvs version.
5
6 Dominique
7
8 On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:26:56 +0000 (UTC)
9 "Duncan" <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
10
11 > Abhay Kedia <abhay.ilugd@×××××.com> posted
12 > 200608221453.49851.abhay.ilugd@×××××.com, excerpted below, on Tue, 22
13 Aug
14 > 2006 14:53:38 +0530:
15 >
16 > > On Monday 21 August 2006 19:53, Olivier Crête wrote:
17 > >>
18 > >> You can use ogg123
19 > >>
20 > > Some of the files are wav files as well, so I can't play them using
21 > > ogg123 and KDE doesn't allow use to use multiple alternate players
22 for
23 > > playing its files.
24 >
25 > FWIW, I've dealt with the problem as well (altho I have arts, its age
26 is
27 > showing and it gets broken with some versions of KDE), so I know the
28 > frustration. An idea I haven't tried but which popped into my head as
29 I
30 > was reading your post... what about creating a simple shell script
31 that
32 > looks at the file it's handed and determines whether to call ogg123 or
33 > mpg321 or whatever, based on extension or what "file" thinks it is?
34 >
35 > Fortunately arts and the built-in events player are working for me
36 ATM,
37 > but I may try this next time something breaks.
38 >
39 > ... Looking forward to KDE4 and getting rid of arts!
40 >
41
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