Re: gpe-mp3-Player for 0.8.4-rc2?

Hello,

Florian Erfurth wrote:
> Vladimir Martinek wrote:
> 
>> yes, looking into code I see it does.
> 
> Eh... now I see the package madplay isn't installed, but why? I mean 
> normally madplay would be installed if I install gpe-nmf because of 
> depency.

I dug down little bit more in the NMF over the weekend and made it 
running nicely on my 0.7.2 (I still haven't upgraded) and with some 
little changes also on my x64 PC. As soon as I upgrade, I will try 0.8.2.

> 
>> I tried to compile the NMF but it fails, maybe I'll give it another 
>> try later. It would be nice to have this working.
> 
> Why did it fail to compile? May you send me the error messages (attached 
> as filetext if it's allowed in this mailinglist, huh?)?

Sorry, I haven't recorded that message, it was a missing reference 
(linker error) and it was pretty straightforward to fix it, just compile 
the missing lib.

The major problem turned out to be missing ESD daemon (by default NMF 
uses ESD to play). So you can either install the 'esd' package or you 
can change the NMF to use something different by setting the NMF_SINK 
environment variable:

export NMF_SINK=osssink, then start NMF.

NMF uses gstreamer (great stuff by the way) so you will have to have 
gstreamer installed, appropriate sink plugin (oss, alsa, esd,...see 
above) and madplay (this one should pull the libmad with it, if not, 
install it manually).

The easy way to check whether it works is executing following command in 
  the terminal:

gst-launch filesrc location=music.mp3 ! mad ! esdsink

or

gst-launch filesrc location=music.mp3 ! mad ! osssink
(in case you decide to use the OSS backend).



> 
>> I am not sure about the mixer applet. I use gpe-mixer (is it the 
>> same?), that one starts fine (volume > 0) but I am missing the 
>> 'minimize' and 'close' buttons that used to be in previous versions 
>> (0.7.1 I remember :).
> 
> Applet=Symbols next to clock in the left bottom corner. Maybe I should 
> test the mixer program (i mean not the applet).

I haven't used the applet but I remember it, I've been using it in 
0.7.1. I'll give it a try.

Vladimir


> 
>> Florian Erfurth wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you. I think NMF uses madplay as backend, am I right? Maybe 
>>> newer version of madplay isn't compatible to NMF.
>>> @Vladimir:
>>> Are you able to use Mixer-Applet? If I use it, the button always goes 
>>> to bottom (Volume = 0).
>>>
>>> cu Floh
>>>
>>> Vladimir Martinek wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I've been facing problems with NMF since 0.7.2 or so....after few 
>>>> tries I started to use 'madplay' utility and play the files from 
>>>> terminal, that one seems to work. It does not look too fancy, it's 
>>>> little bit awkward, but it works. Hope some day somebody will will 
>>>> patch the NMF or write alternative.
>>>>
>>>> Vladimir
> 
> 
> 


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