[vox-tech] No sound with Xine

[Troy Arnold]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:48:21PM -0800, ME wrote:
> Dick McCabe Jr said:
> > I am using Mandrake 9.0 which comes with Xine.  But when I play an avi
> > file I get the video but no sound.  My sound works on everything else.
> > I checked the settings and at the sound setup it said null.  I tried to
> > change the driver but it just went back to null.
> >
> > I am using an ASUS A7V333 with C-Media CM8738 onboard sound.  (Mandrake
> > recognized it and configured it automatically)
> 
> If sound is working "with everything else" but not this, you may wish to
> consider examining how sound is setup on your system. Perhaps you have an
> "esd" running or some other daemonized sound system. If so, see if Xine
> supports esd or the daemonized sound system you are using and try to
> enable it.
> 
> I find vmware does not like esd running for sound access. Perhaps xine is
> similar.

FYI, Xine supports at least esd,oss, and artsd.