[vlc] FreeBSD 5.0 and No Sound - and yes, have read the FAQ ;>

[Stef Telford]

Hello,
	First of all, let me jst say that vlc 0.4.4
from the freebsd ports works fine. not a problem, and
indeed, that is what i am using in the interim to getting
0.5.0 working properly. makes life interesting, reinstalling
and then deinstalling whenever i want to try the 0.5.0 again
(incase i have missed something obvious :)

	Now, onto the problem. I do a configure of 0.5.0
(and i have made sure that all the pre-requisite's are
installed at the level on the source page). The configure 
command i use is:

./configure --with-xvid=/usr/local --with-ogg=/usr/local
--with-a52=/usr/local --with-ffmpeg=/usr/local --with-dvdcss=/usr/local
--with-dvdread=/usr/local --enable-ffmpeg --enable-arts --enable-esd

	i figure its probably best to be safe than sorry.
Whenever i play any mpeg or divx local file (those are the items
i have here at present), using -vvvv, i get this error:

[00000141] main private debug: looking for audio filter module
[00000141] main private debug: probing 17 candidates
[00000046] main module debug: using audio filter module "float32tos16"
[00000140] main audio output debug: found a filter for the whole
conversion
[00000140] main audio output debug: looking for audio mixer module
[00000140] main audio output debug: probing 3 candidates
[00000110] main module debug: using audio mixer module "float32_mixer"
[00000140] main audio output debug: looking for audio mixer module
[00000140] main audio output debug: probing 3 candidates
[00000110] main module debug: using audio mixer module "float32_mixer"
[00000140] main audio output debug: input 'mpga' 44100 Hz Stereo
frame=1152 samples/1262 bytes
[00000140] main audio output debug: filter(s) 'mpga'->'fl32' 44100
Hz->44100 Hz
Stereo->Stereo
[00000142] main private debug: looking for audio filter module
[00000142] main private debug: probing 17 candidates
[00000140] main audio output error: couldn't find a filter for the
conversion
[00000140] main audio output error: couldn't set an input pipeline

	The video is displayed fine, no glitches during playback
or anything else. I am using the snd_ich and snd_pcm kernel modules
and have them preloaded at boot time. I can playback sound using
XMMS and mplayer and gtk-cd, in KDE and GNOME (using arts and esd
respectively). I have also tried it without arts or esd running
and selecting 'oss' output, all to no avail.

	As a small sidenote, since freebsd has more than one dsp
file (/dev/dsp and /dev/dspW0.0) both have been tried (one is jst a
symlink to the other) with the same error. 

	One last thing, this is a p4 laptop, and i know that FreeBSD 
has had some problems with SSE and SSE2 extensions in the past
using a p4, so i have tried with those disabled as well. 

	So, any ideas ?

regads 
Stef Telford <stef at chronozon.artofdns.com>

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