Re: [Gwc-general] Anyone still using GWC?

[Alister H. <ali...@gm...>]

If audio playback works in other programs, sure, maybe something could be
tweaked on your system to make it work, but it may well indicate something
that should be fixed in GWC too.
I'm pretty confident it will be audio related, not graphics, so there's a
pretty good chance it will work fine if you try compiling with a different
audio backend.  The default is alsa - run `make clean`  first and configure
with --disable-alsa to use oss, and --enable-pa to use pulseaudio.


On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 20:18, John Cirillo <jo...@in...> wrote:

> Follow-up note.  I downloaded both your update and Jeff's on github, built
> both versions.  They both compiled fine and ran.  Audio works, if that was
> ever an issue.  But the cursor is still frozen.  If I don't highlight an
> area, there is no apparent cursor.  If I highlight some data, the cursor
> appears on the left, and just as I hit play, you can see the cursor start
> moving and then stop.  The music continues to play.
> I don't think this is a GWC problem but a symptom of something else.  I am
> going to go about my business trying other programs in the next day or so,
> and see if there are any other weird video issues.
> If it was a system update, it might go away with the next update and we'll
> never know what it was.  If I get desperate I may try reinstalling Buster
> from the latest release, or reinstalling my earlier iso to see if the
> problem goes away.   Very strange.
>
> On 3/8/21 2:00 AM, John Cirillo wrote:
>
> Hello Alister,
> Wonderful to know you're still out there.  The list has been very quiet.
>
> My latest install of Buster was probably done in December of 2020.  I had
> been running Jessie up until then, but finally it had to go.
> I normally use either the "GTK Wave Cleaner" package provided by Debian 10
> (version 22 with no suffix shown) or my still-favorite version of 0.21-18.
> Last time I used either was about a month ago and things seemed normal.
> I didn't use it again until yesterday and that was when I noticed this
> oddity.  Everything seems to work, but the scrolling cursor bar doesn't
> appear or if/when I highlight an area and hit play, the bar stays at the
> beginning of the highlight area.   I did a full reboot to make sure nothing
> was locked up, which didn't help.    I downloaded the latest version from
> sourceforge (0.22-4) and it compiled fine.  I ran that version too, and it
> also has this cursor problem.  So the same issue exists whether using
> 0.21-18, 0.22, or 0.22-4.  Something changed within the last few weeks but
> what?  Video driver?  I am using Nouveau.  I always use Nouveau as long as
> it plays nice with Netflix.   I had the proprietary Nvidia drivers a few
> years ago but there was some issue and I went back to the free Nouveau
> package.
>
> I just now fired up Audacity to test it, and the cursor moves OK on that
> one.  I know it's apples to oranges but it was easy to try.  I don't prefer
> Audacity for anything besides recording.
> So that's where I am with this.  I don't think the issue is with GWC at
> all, but something changed in a system file that doesn't play nicely with
> that cursor.
>
> I am willing to try the 2021 cleanup version to see what happens.
>
>
> On 3/8/21 1:27 AM, Alister Hood wrote:
>
> Hi John,
> There are certainly still people using gwc, and there has even been a
> small burst of development recently (no release yet).  No, the mailing list
> hasn't moved.
>
> Are you running the gwc package Debian provides for Buster?  I see Buster
> was updated recently, so I guess that is when your problem started?
>
> Are you able to compile from source instead?  I doubt the latest release
> will behave any differently, but Jeff has a go at reworking the playback
> code this year, so I'd be interested to know whether the master branch on
> github (where I have merged the first half of his work), or Jeff's working
> branch at https://github.com/weltyj/gwc/tree/gwc_cleanup_2021 behave
> better.  In the systems I test on they have fixed various issues like
> this.  But unfortunately someone else reported at
> https://github.com/AlisterH/gwc/issues/24 that they break playback on his
> system.
>
> Regards,
> Alister
>
> On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 19:01, John Cirillo <jo...@in...>
> wrote:
>
>> Is this still the mailing list for Gnome Wave Cleaner, or has it moved
>> and I missed it?
>> I've been using it all along but now am having issues with the cursor
>> not moving along with the music playing.
>> Debian Buster 64 bit.
>>
>> Thanks!
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