problems with sound

baseline87 · 03-12-2006, 02:57 PM

hi there,

I recently installed vector onto my system and i'm having a problem playing mp3's on it.

in kde the sounds work fine however when i try to play an mp3 i get the error "couldn't open audio" and i get similar errors with amaroK also.

it doesn't seem to be a privilages problem as it won't work when logged in as root either Sad

thanks for any help you can give me

Simon

lestoil · 03-12-2006, 03:12 PM

So do you have alsa installed and configured and can you play a music cd with kde kscd? Your username is member of audio,cdrom,disk in /etc/group? Do you have option in mp3 player program to pick audio plugin? Can you pick gstreamer or ESD as plugin? Try that to see if it helps.Good luck.