Re: 13.1M4/KDE4.11&12.3/KDE4.10.5: system sounds, SMplayer2 OK; no VLC sound

On 2013-09-16 12:07 (GMT+0200) David Haller composed:

>>I'm not clear what it is you're suggesting here. What are [c]vlc, ltrace and
>>foo.ltrace?

> It's a (faulty) command line, but I think it's not the next step yet
> anyway. The command line:

>      ltrace -S -s 128 -f -o foo.ltrace cvlc -v --play-and-exit foo.mpeg
...
> [1] if it's a script (bash, perl etc.) you have to call it via the
>      interpreter e.g. 'ltrace /bin/bash -- foo.sh --foo-opt foo-arg'
>      or 'ltrace perl -- foo.pl'.

This footnote lost me. http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/SUSE/123/dnhlog1.txt has what I managed.

> So, I hope I could explain that, but as mentioned, that's not the next
> best step anyway (I've thought some more about it). ltrace is a very
> powerful tool for debugging (even more than strace) but not easy to
> use (esp. reading the output ;) But it's something I preinstall in my
> "OBS" prefs (oh, that reminds me: have to put that in my PMBS prefs
> too) for when I build/debug stuff locally prior to committing to the
> OBS ;) So I can use "[sl]trace" in a .spec file while building stuff
> with OBS. Very useful. Solved quite a few nasties that way.

> Anyway:

> You should first do a

>      ldd /usr/lib64/vlc/plugins/codec/liblibmpeg2_plugin.so

Part of above URL, but didn't get done until after I did what you wrote first to do.

> and mail the output here. Then you should call

>      cvlc -v --play-and-exit foo.mpeg

More of above URL...

Further followup late tomorrow might be easier via irc://freenode/opensuse-testing or irc://freenode/opensuse-factory where I'm nick a-865.
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