Questions about Totem-Xine sound

Seth Hasani sepheebear at gmail.com
Sat Aug 27 07:30:21 UTC 2005


<quote who="Michael R Head" on Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 12:52:58AM EDT>

> On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 14:43 -0500, thephotoman wrote:
> > On one of my two computers running Ubuntu, I seem to have a problem 
> > getting sound out of Totem-Xine.  It appears that it's trying to use 
> > either OSS or ALSA instead of ESD.  Xine-UI actually does use ESD, but I 
> > need to know how to make Totem-Xine do the same thing.
> 
> 1) run totem then quit it.
> 2) edit $HOME/.gnome2/totem_config
> 3) replace the  '#audio.driver:auto' with 'audio.driver:esd'
> 4) try totem again
> 

When its set to auto I think totem honors the setting from:
System -> Preferences -> Multimedia Systems Selector
Thanks for the workaround though.




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