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

David Trask dtrask at vcsvikings.org
Wed Feb 21 03:48:27 UTC 2007


Can you document the steps you took to get everything working correctly?


"Support list for open source software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com>
writes:
>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 < [ mailto:dahopkins429 at gmail.com
>]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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David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Director
Vassalboro Community School
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