[CM] Building snd from source

[Meino Christian Cramer]

From: Meino Christian Cramer <Meino.Cramer@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [CM] Building snd from source
Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 02:04:08 +0200 (CEST)

...I have to add the following:

 The no-ending-loop-problem seems to be indepedantly from the status
 of the loop "button" to the very right of the window...

 Have a nice weekend !
 Meino 

> From: Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen <k.s.matheussen@notam02.no>
> Subject: Re: [CM] Building snd from source
> Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 20:51:28 +0200 (CEST)
> 
> 
> Hi Kjetil,
> 
>  some additional comments about the "getting louder and louder"-bug,
>  which may have to do with it.
> 
>  I recorded a "snip" with my fingers with snd.
> 
>  I cut off the silence in front of the file.
> 
>  I pressed GO, which changed its face to "STOP"
> 
>  The "I am currently here"-bar moves from the start till the end (the
>  whole file was visible. You do not need the slider to get to its
>  end).
> 
>  But: As the bar reaches the end and the sound has defintely ended,
>  the button does *not* change to "GO" again at once. 
> 
>  After two seconds of "doing nothing" the button changes its face.
> 
>  Now:
> 
>  One can force the "increasing volume" bug by enabling looping and
>  hitting GO while the first loop is still running.
> 
>  There is some misunderstanding between the "loop" """button""" at the
>  very right side just below the sound graphs and the LOOP button which
>  comes with dlp.
> 
>  If the right loop button is pressed, and you start looping with the
>  LOOP button of dlp, you cannot get out of the mode of looped playing
>  anymore without restarting snd, regardless what is pressed, depressed
>  or so...
> 
>  Sometimes snd loops so heavy, that only a reboot (reset button of the
>  PC must be used or the SYSREQ-key-sequence of Linux) revives the PC,
>  since all CPU power is eaten up and no keyboard input is recognized
>  by X11 anymore...
> 
>  In this case, snd (or someone else) prints "Too many open files" into
>  its debug dialog.
> 
>  Hope it helps a little to catch the bug.
> 
>  Kind regards and keep snd'ing!
>  Meino
> 
>  PS: Is "no" of your email address for "norway", Kjetil ?
> 
>  
> > Meino Christian Cramer:
> > > 
> > >  I tried to build snd from source, which I freshly downloaded.
> > > 
> > >  I entered different problems.
> > > 
> > >  My question is:
> > >   Is it recommended (for a building-snd-from-source-newbie) to build
> > >   it with the motif or the gtk interface? ;)
> > 
> > I use gtk, but only because it looks better and feels much faster. There 
> > are less audio-dropouts using motif.
> > 
> > 
> > >   Do both interfaces provide the same functionality?
> > > 
> > Very much, seems to be.
> > 
> > 
> > >   My resulting snd does soemtimes enter an endless loop when first
> > >   pressing "play in loop" and then "stop" -- I was bombed with "Too
> > >   many files open" messages and had to reboot, since the computer
> > >   was so busy in looping that it does not to respond to key input 
> > >   anymore.
> > >   
> > 
> > Hmm, hopefully related to the next one:
> > 
> > 
> > >   Another thing while playing in loop:
> > >   Sometimes the volume steadily increases with every loop until it was
> > >   totally distorted.
> > > 
> > 
> > I have to confess I have known about this for a long time without 
> > reporting it (so much things to do).
> > 
> > To Bill:
> > My guess is that when the player reach the end of the selection,
> > the stop-playing-hook is called before actually stopping
> > the playing. What happens is that the stop-playing-hook
> > code (the function "c-play-selection2" in snd_conffile.scm)
> > starts playing another time before the other one was
> > stopped. And then I have a feeling that for some reason
> > "c-play-selection2" is called yet another time when the
> > first playing really stops, which it shouldn't. If that
> > makes sense... At least I certainly think theres something 
> > different with the stop-playing-hook handling thats causing
> > this.
> > 
> > 
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