Sean Meighan
Welcome => Do You Need Help? Post it here => Topic started by: sittro on October 11, 2015, 02:31:15 PM
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I just installed V4.2.15 on Ubuntu Linux and converted a Vixen file to fseq to play in the scheduler. This is my first time working with XLights. When I create a playlist and hit "Play Item" it gives me an error: Unable to play media file: Halloween.mp3. I can play the mp3 file just fine with any mp3 software like Audacity, etc. I did install ubuntu-restricted-extras and playitslowly before compiling. Am I missing something to allow xLights to play mp3?
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I can't remember and am not at a computer but I think you need the lame libraries installed. Check the Linux readme file, I believe the package requirements are listed in there. You will have to translate package names for Ubuntu.
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Thanks, I installed LAME and recompiled, but that didn't seem to help. It looks like it's compiling with libmpg123, which should work. I can't seem to figure out what the problem is (it won't play any mp3 files).
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I haven't tried it on Ubuntu, I use a fedora spin normally. Maybe check 'ldd' to see if libmpg123 is linked. Can it play from the sequence tab or does that give the same error?
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Thanks for the suggestion. Libmpg123 is linked according to ldd. I can't play mp3s from anywhere in the program, not just the scheduler. I think I'll checkout some earlier versions because there are a couple other weird things I can't get working, like the layout preview. It also gives me a "Could not find a suitable video sink Error 0: Success" message at the beginning. But my Renard and all channels work in the test tab, so at least that's a start.
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I haven't tried playing audio for a while on Linux, I will try to update soon and test to make sure it is still working.
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I tried tonight with the latest code from github and mp3 playback is working on my Fedora dev system.
Have you tried a "make clean" just to make sure there aren't any issues with some files not getting recompiled as they should somewhere along the way?
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I tried that, as well as a few different versions. I can't seem to figure out what's wrong. I ended up grabbing an old windows disk and dual booting and it works great in windows. If I have some free time I might try a clean linux install and see how that goes. Thanks for your help.
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If you want me to try your mp3 on my working system to exclude any incompatibility issue with the file, feel free to PM me a link to a Dropbox location or I can send you my email address.
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I just upgraded to lubuntu 15.10 and recompiled. Mp3 playing works fine now. I must have screwed something up with my previous install, who knows what it was. Thanks for the help.
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Glad you got it working. I am interested to hear about how it goes, I have been having some crashes lately but haven't had time to even start to try to debug those. They are normally GTK asserts with a message about "width < 0"
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I get crashes on the layout page when changing model height, but since I reinstalled the models aren't showing up, just a gray background. I must have not installed gtk or maybe wxWidgets properly? Always new problems!
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Which version of wxWidgets are you using? I am running 3.0.2. I found out some of my drawing issues are related to the other libraries on my one system. I tested last night on another laptop and didn't have the drawing issues with the preview image. I didn't play around long enough to see if it crashed with the gtk width assert.