Bug 74942 – media-sound/beep-media-player randomly stoped playing internet streams

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description postmodern 2004-12-19 09:02:23 UTC]

media-sound/beep-media-player randomly stoped playing internet streams and is not displaying the text/number after the last dot in a hostname or ip address in the playlist. I've tried restarting bmp or changing playlists but nothing works. Playing of local files works just fine though.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. start bmp
2. load your favorite pls file
3. click play

Actual Results:  
the generic "unable to play file" error message.

Expected Results:  
playing of the streams.

Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3,
glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-pipe -O3 -march=k8"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-pipe -O3 -march=k8"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X acpi alsa berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt encode esd f77 fam flac
fortran gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 java jp2 jpeg lzw lzw-tiff mozilla multilib
ncurses network nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam perl png python readline samba
speex spell sqlite ssl tcpd theora tiff truetype usb userlocales xml xml2 xmms
xpm xrandr xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) 2004-12-19 09:10:27 UTC]

Do you use alsa or oss? What driver do you use? I have the same issue here with snd-intel8x0

[Comment 2 postmodern 2004-12-19 09:14:42 UTC]

I use ALSA with my SB Live (emu10k1) but I do have OSS compat layer enabled as well. I don't think the problem is with the audio drivers since all my local ogg vorbis files play perfectly. Probably its some playlist entry parsing code. I've noticed the correct entries do appear right when I load a pls but are changed to their mangled forms as if it were loading song info from the non-working stream.

[Comment 3 postmodern 2004-12-19 09:50:41 UTC]

Ah HA! The problem lies in some how the MPEG plugin is missing therefor all mp3 files can not be played local or via a stream.

[Comment 4 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) 2004-12-19 12:43:39 UTC]

Did you forget to enable USE=mp3 ?

[Comment 5 postmodern 2004-12-19 12:57:28 UTC]

You are kiding me, this USE flag thing is getting out of control. Well mp3 is in place in my /etc/make.conf and beep is playing mp3s again.