[K12OSN] Discussion on sound (not meant as a rant)

[Petre Scheie]

Dave-
How did you finally fix the problems of playing the United Streaming 
content?  In the last episode that I caught, you were using mplayer, but 
sound was not working, as I recall.

Petre

David Hopkins wrote:
> Final follow-up on this.
> 
> Ryan (the tech coord) informed me that the demo of using United 
> Streaming went flawlessly last Friday. He was even able to show an ad 
> hoc presentation by one of the invited speakers that used both Windows 
> Media player and flash-based movies from a usb stick without any problems.
> 
> Again, many many thanks to everyone for the assistance that let this happen.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Dave Hopkins
> 
> 
> On 2/4/07, *David Hopkins* < dahopkins429 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:dahopkins429 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     A little more on the continue saga of getting mplayer with the gui
>     to work.
> 
>     mplayer runs solidly now, playing all the videos that I have tried
>     from UnitedStreaming provided I start it from a terminal session.  I
>     have not gotten either the gui interface nor the plugin to work
>     properly.
> 
>     GUI:  For the gui, it launches but the moment you start a clip, it
>     freezes.  Now, the only clue I have is that if you try to then open
>     a terminal session after launching gmplayer, the terminal session
>     also freezes.  Is there a possibility that the gui is trying to
>     write to std out and can't so it freezes?  If I execute a CTRL-C for
>     the terminal window, I then get the prompt back, and can kill gmplayer.
> 
>     Plugin:  The plugin shows as loaded, and shows that it is
>     downloading/buffering, but then on playback, I do not get anything,
>     no picture, no sound.
> 
>     Sincerely,
>     Dave Hopkins
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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