Re: [LUG] Heist ad: IBM, Linux, and audio from MPEG 1

[kevin bailey <kevin_bailey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi guys,

great ad - hopefully it will be on tv soon!

FWIW - it played fine on my debian stable box using gtv - had to add my 
normal login to the audio group but that was all.

it reminds me of an issue which annoys sometimes - if i add myself to a 
group (using su) i have to log out and log back in again for the session 
to know that i am in the new group - is there anyway i can force my 
current login session to reload its group settings - or tell it that i 
am now in group xxxx?

thanks,

kev


Tony Atkin wrote:

> On Wednesday 02 January 2002 5:48 pm, Adrian Midgley wrote:
>
> > The article is at
> > http://consultingtimes.com/Serverheist.html
> > and is worthwhile
> > The advert is at
> > http://www.consultingtimes.com/media/heist60.mpeg
> > 5 MBytes.
> >
> > On this KDE here I only get video, whereas on another OS I get
> > audio.
> >
> > So is this a general thing, 
>
> I got audio + video from kde media player (Noatun), no problems.  Nice 
> ad! Very IBM.  My environment - Noatun 1.2.0, KDE 2.2.2, Qt 2.3.1
>
>
> > or can I reconfigure my machine to play
> > the audio from this file, and if so where can I find the codec
> > required, please?
> >
> > It is the sort of thing that has some relevance for the NHS where
> > email outward through an Exim installation on Solaris is fine, but
> > internally on multiple MS Exchange Servers is crap.
> >
> > But it would have more impact if it played on a Linux desktop, I
> > think.



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