I'm only using two apps with sound output right now: JuK and Kaffeine. Kaffeine (xine) plays directly to ALSA. That leaves JuK as the only user of arts. As JuK has an option to output to GStreamer, I'd like to try that and get rid of arts.
I've asked about this several months ago and got the advice to install gstreamer-plugins. Back then, I didn't get very far, yesterday I tried again. I was able to play an mp3 file like this ~$ gst-launch filesrc location=music.mp3 ! mad ! osssink alsasink didn't work, though. No sound from JuK, unfortunately. It seems to go through a track as fast as the CPU can decode it, in the process using almost 90+% CPU. Doing this, JuK always crashed pretty soon. I don't really understand how GStreamer is supposed to work. Don't I have to configure anything? How are suitable plugins selected? Michael -- Michael Schuerig Most people would rather die than think. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In fact, they do. http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ --Bertrand Russell
