Re: [mh] Arg - migrating mh to new system and mp3 not working

[Sean M. <mat...@nu...>]

On Wednesday 07 May 2008 06:02:35 pm Rick Steeves wrote:
>  I don't believe I have a OS or VM problem. I have a winamp problem. From
> my original post: " winamp has no problems playing things outside of mh."
> That can be evidenced that in debugging I have now "cheated", and just
> copied the /winamp  from the old machine to the new machine, and (once I
> fixed the soundcard setting) it fixes the problems and the ia5 interface
> for MH works.
Ahh i misunderstood "outside" i was thinking back on DOM0 in the host os it 
worked but didnt work on the vm..

Sorry to say i don't even know what IA5 is :c )


>
> So back to my original question:
>  > anyone running the ia5 interface successfully with winamp 5.531 (or
>  > something newer than 5.0.5)?
>
> It's working for me, so I'm good, but I'd like to upgrade and if someone
> else is trying to get this to work, they could have problems, so I'd like
> to figure that out.
>
> Rick
>
> As to your question:
> Running MH 2.101 with various patches (I pick up new code when something
> doesn't work, but don't just replace everything, as whenever I do that I
> have to do a lot of debugging, and I'm a strong believer of don't fix
> what's working).
>
> Running a windows XP guest on Windows XP running VMware 1.0.5 (I'll migrate
> to my linux host when everything's working. I'm avoiding COM issues by
> running a Avocent ESP 16 for Serial over TCPIP. Also lets me more readily
> locate the serial devices where I want them, not all strung off the PC with
> the limitations of serial cable length.
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Sean Mathews <mat...@nu...> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 07 May 2008 05:47:10 pm Rick Steeves wrote:
>  >  I'm migrating MH from it's physical machine into a new sparkly virtual
>  > machine. I've got most everything working, but just before I pulled the
>
> VMWare? or what.. what is your DOM0 or host os?
>  I have had no issues with MH under VMWare workstation or server on linux
> as the host os...., but i did end up using a USB->AUDIO adapter as i have
> lots of issues with VMWare and Linux sound drivers working with each
> other..
>
>  > plug on the old machine, I noticed that the MP3 player isn't working.
>  >
>  > I'm using WinAmp, and winamp has no problems playing things outside of
>  > mh.
>  >
>  > When I open ia5, and select play, it does launch winamp, but it doesn't
>  > actually start winamp playing anything, and the song displayed in winamp
>  > doesn't change from what I last listened to in winamp. The older system
>  > is running winamp 5.05 and the new one is running winamp 5.531
>
> Can you play any sounds?
>
>  > anyone running the ia5 interface successfully with winamp 5.531 (or
>  > someting newer than 5.0.5)?
>  >
>  > In return, I'm going to provide some notes on the issues I found in
>  > making the new MH install that diverged from instructions!
>  >
>  > rick