kaffeine uses libcdio, which I don't think has ever worked quite right on OpenBSD. kaffeine crashes for me on amd64 when I try to play an audio CD. kscd tries to use '/dev/cdrom' by default, which is totally bogus.
use cdio(1)'s 'cdplay' command to play audio CDs. cdio(1) is in base. it works. older CD player software on UNIX generally tries to have the CD reader decode the data to analog signals and send that to the audio device through a direct connection. this is what cdio(1)'s 'play' command does too, btw. there is no guarantee that there is an analog connection from the CD device to the soundcard (and no way to check other that visual examination or experimentation), especially on newer laptops. I didn't look at the code, but this is probably why you don't hear anything with kscd (assuming you fixed it to use the right device). On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 02:07:56PM -0400, Len Zaifman wrote: > Running OpenBSD 4.8 GENERIC.MP#383 i386 ie a recent -current snapshot I can > run both commercial DVDs and videos downloaded from the web ( flv and mp3,4 > files) using kaffeine and the audio is perfectly fine. > > I use kaffeine-0.8.8p2 from the packages directory. > > When I try to use kaffeine to play commercial CDs I hear dropouts about every > 5-10 seconds. It is very annoying. Since DVDs have much higher bandwidth > requirements than music CDs, it may be a software issue. I tried kscd and > there is no audio output. > > Is there a fix for kaffeine and music cds?? can I get kscd to output audio? > Another CD player on openbsd I can try? > > For Hardware I am on a Lenovo W500 Laptop > > Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9600 @ 2.80GHz > > real mem = 3214176256 (3065MB) > avail mem = 3151605760 (3005MB) > > cd0 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <Optiarc, DVD RW AD-7910S, 1.D0> ATAPI 5/cdrom > removable > azalia0 at pci0 dev 27 function 0 "Intel 82801I HD Audio" rev 0x03: apic 1 int > 17 (irq 11) > azalia0: codecs: Conexant CX20561, Conexant/0x2c06, using Conexant CX20561 > audio0 at azalia0 > > Len Zaifman > Systems Manager, High Performance Systems > The Centre for Computational Biology > The Hospital for Sick Children > 555 University Ave. > Toronto, Ont M5G 1X8 > > tel: 416-813-5513 > email: leona...@sickkids.ca > > This e-mail may contain confidential, personal and/or health > information(information which may be subject to legal restrictions on use, > retention and/or disclosure) for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any > review or distribution by anyone other than the person for whom it was > originally intended is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail > in error, please contact the sender and delete all copies. -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
