XMMS and Mplayer, broken after emerge -u world

s003apr · Apprentice Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 162

My mplayer and xmms no longer work (mplayer may never have worked, I actually hadn't tried it up until this point).
Whenever I try to load them I see the hourglass pop up showing that it is trying to load but eventually nothing is loaded and the process just dies. Since they're both multimedia apps, I am assuming that the problem is related.

I have recently done and emerge -u world which updated from kde 3.0.4 to 3.0.5a, and alsa from rc2 to rc6 among many other upgrades.

Other multimedia things still work: Noaturn, midi, and sound still plays when kde starts up. So for the most part the kde and alsa installations seem to have gone well.

Obviously nobody is going to be able to tell me what is wrong from this short description, but can Anybody give me an idea on how to start diagnosing this problem?

jetblack · Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 4:46 pm Post subject:

I had this same problem (with xmms, I don't use mplayer). For me, it turned out that xmms and arts weren't playing nice. I got xmms to work by unmerging arts

s003apr · Apprentice Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 162

jetblack · Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 6:13 pm Post subject:

Fair enough. I suppose it's possible that downgrading arts would fix the problem (it stands to reason that it would), but I'm really not sure. I'll let you know if I have any success getting them to coexist with that other method I linked to.

If you've got the time to spare, you could try unmerging arts to see if that fixes the problem, and then just remerge it when you're done. Or perhaps you could just suspend it as outlined in that link I posted. If neither suspending arts nor unmerging it (and restarting x) helps, then there's no point in downgrading it

Also, you could try emerging xmms-arts to see if that helps (if you're using alsa-xmms, you'd probably want to unmerge that). You may want to try that first. Don't know why I didn't think of it before.

Unfortunately, I can't test any of these myself right now, but I'll certainly let you know if I have any success with any of these options tonight or tomorrow.

s003apr · Apprentice Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 162

well, I just got home, and started up fluxbox, and sure enough, both xmms and mplayer work. So, the problem is with kde 3.0.5a.

I may just wait until another update is released for these programs rather than mess with anything.

jetblack · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 2:50 pm Post subject:

FYI - I tried suspending arts, and it didn't help. I didn't bother with xmms-arts, because I'd rather just use alsa. So, I'd say either unmerge arts or wait for an update. Hopefully they'll correct the behavior.

Also, I noticed that now that I have KDE looking the way I want, it's basically fluxbox with the kicker, so I'll probably just go back to flux, too

akhkharu99 · Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2003 5:50 pm Post subject:

i have noticed that neither xmms nor mplayer will work if arts is running. all that i do to fix that is a quick