[Wolves] My Ubuntu Headache et al...

[Philip Moore]

Hi

The Ubuntu web site has links to locate the DVD decoding software - complete 
with the legal warning.

Philip Moore


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Wootton" <andy.wootton at wyrley.demon.co.uk>
To: "Wolverhampton Linux User Group" <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Wolves] My Ubuntu Headache et al...


> abdul shakur wrote:
>
>>Hi guys,
>>I have some problems with my pc running ubuntu as
>>follows:
>>
>>1. Can not get any music output though I get various
>>sound when I close or open files and others. The cd
>>player actually indicates as running. My sound card is
>>an Intel Corp. 82801AA AC'97 Audio.
>>
>>2.Totem does not play my DVD's though I get a window.
>>The DVD player is a SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616T.
>>
> 1. You aren't alone Abdul. Your problem may just be lack of a wire from 
> the CD player to the sound card input though.It may have worked like that 
> with Windows because it will transfer the data over the bus. It is a 
> philosophical point whether this is better or worse than not working.
>
> I've got no sound from my Sonic Fury. (It came with my PC and  I have 
> never had it working to add to the fun.)
> There are a few posts with similar problems out on the net but the only 
> answer I've found was to mute an 'external amplifier' in the mixer 
> settings. That didn't work for me or the guy it was aimed at. Does 
> everyone see  two different tabs in the mixer; one for OSS and one for 
> ALSA? Is Gnome 'Volume Control' the mixer I should be using? Is Gstreamer 
> a good thing? I get the impression we are in the middle of changing 
> between standards/architectures but I haven't been following sound until 
> now. Can anyone offer a few pointers? Cheers.
>
> 2. Look back to recent posts. I think the MP3 and DVD code has to be 
> obtained elsewhere because of legal restrictions.
>
> Woo
>
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