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Date:      Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:11:36 +0200
From:      Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk>
To:        Todd Stephens <tbstep@tampabay.rr.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xmms-arts plugin
Message-ID:  <200309110911.36487.freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk>
In-Reply-To: <200309091949.14615.tbstep@tampabay.rr.com>
References:  <3F5E55D6.1080902@reversedhell.net> <200309091949.14615.tbstep@tampabay.rr.com>

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On Wednesday 10 September 2003 01:49, Todd Stephens wrote:

> > I am having a lot of pain trying to compile the xmms-arts plugin
> > available from xmms.org, since it is not in the ports anymore. If
> > anyone uses the xmms-arts plugin on freebsd I would really appreciate
> > any help. I am running FreeBSD-4.8 STABLE, with the ports cvsuped and
> > upraded today.
> I do not believe you need it.  I am running XMMS under KDE with no arts
> plugin without any problems at all.

You don't *need* it, but xmms will lock the sound-device while playing and 
thus hindering kde-apps using it. One solution is to use vchans, but it sound 
*awfull* with my HW. An arts-plugin to xmms would be really nice, but I never 
got the plugin working apart from crashing everythin IIRC.

Bjarne
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