Bug 29697 – XMMS 1.2.8r2 Won't Play OGG Files

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Gabriel Devenyi 2003-09-26 13:47:54 UTC]

When I queue up my music collection and go to play a song, anything that is in 
ogg format "plays" through, with sound, or movement of the visualizer/
ocilloscope. It then moves on to the next song. MP3s play fine. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open XMMS 
2. Try and play an ogg 
3. 
Actual Results:  
OGG files produce no sound, but do go through the entire length of the song. 

Expected Results:  
Had sound out of the speakers :P 

Portage 2.0.49-r6 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.1, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.22-ck2) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.4.22-ck2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
COMPILER="gcc3" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/
share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/
config" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/unix/Linux/gentoo/" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.ca.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ libwww mad 
mmx mpeg ncurses pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib alsa 
slang readline arts java X sdl tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis 
gtk qt kde opengl 3dnow acpi acpi4linux artswrappersuid cdr dga dvd fbcon gtk2 
jikes mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail pic S3TC samba scanner sse tiff 
usb xfs xml xvid -gdbm -gpm -gnome -mikmod -motif -nls -svga -berkdb"

[Comment 1 Sebastian Dröge 2003-09-27 09:12:57 UTC]

works for me here

[Comment 2 Gabriel Devenyi 2003-09-27 09:14:50 UTC]

On further investigation it appears Noautn (kde's player) won't play ogg
as well, perhaps its a libogg issue...

[Comment 3 Gabriel Devenyi 2003-09-27 17:39:20 UTC]

and again upon further investigation, ogg123, a part of vorbis-tools also
yeilds no sound.

[Comment 4 J. Ellis (RETIRED) 2003-09-27 17:48:57 UTC]

rebuild libvorbis with -see in USE.

[Comment 5 J. Ellis (RETIRED) 2003-09-27 23:38:58 UTC]

My previous comment shoud, of course, read with -sse in USE. I probably wouldn't
hurt to add -3dnow to that as well. Please report back.

[Comment 6 Christoph 2003-10-17 09:41:34 UTC]

rebuilding libvorbis with USE="-sse" corrected the problem I was having where
XMMS would crash with an Illegal Instruction error when trying to play OGG
files. Perhaps a USE flag filter is in order?

[Comment 7 Michal Sylwester 2003-10-25 15:13:18 UTC]

Had the same problem. Re-emerging libvorbis with USE=-3dnow solved it. 
BTW: I'm using AthlonXP, so in theory 3dnow should work...

[Comment 8 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-11-21 08:12:48 UTC]

could you please try with latest gcc/glibc ?

[Comment 9 Marc Ozon 2003-12-06 20:03:51 UTC]

No crashing problems here, but this might be related.  I noticed recently that ogg files weren't sounding good on one of my machines -- highs seemed cut off, and there was more noise than I thought there should have been.  I didn't remember anything that might have caused it (done a fair amount of emerging on this machine since I last played an ogg), but after reading the comments here, I did some recompiling, and sure enough, playback with a libvorbis compiled with -sse sounded much better -- interestingly, even with "-mfpmath=sse" in my $CFLAGS.  I did a bit more recompiling, and have concluded that 3dnow didn't cause any sound problems, just sse.  Practical result:  the libvorbis currently installed on this machine has been compiled with USE="3dnow -sse", but not with -mfpmath=sse in $CFLAGS, just in case; things sound fine.

Using gcc-3.2.3-r3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, kernel 2.4.23-ck1, Duron 1200 (-march=athlon-xp), libvorbis-1.0-r4, xmms-1.2.7-r20.

[Comment 10 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-01-31 21:22:49 UTC]

Marc, can you test out your vorbis problem with the latest version of xmms (1.2.9-r1) and libvorbis (1.0.1-r2 I believe).  If the problem persists, please open a new bug.  As for THIS bug, I'm closing it due to lack of response from the submitter.