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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Unable to play media file: Halloween.mp3

« on: October 25, 2015, 12:49:26 AM »

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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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Unable to play media file: Halloween.mp3

« on: October 24, 2015, 02:10:04 AM »

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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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Unable to play media file: Halloween.mp3

« on: October 18, 2015, 10:05:42 PM »

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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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Unable to play media file: Halloween.mp3

« on: October 13, 2015, 01:29:03 AM »

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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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Unable to play media file: Halloween.mp3

« on: October 11, 2015, 05:04:38 PM »

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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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Unable to play media file: Halloween.mp3

« on: October 11, 2015, 02:31:15 PM »

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?