Re: can't get multimedia working with any browser

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi Thomas, Jude,

We've found a number of problems with speech on our systems (FreeTTS), and 
with the general speech subsystem going away for various reasons (not all 
tracked down).  To best address this, the very latest versions of Gnopernicus 
in CVS (as of the last ~3 weeks and most recently a fix late last week) now 
aggressively restart speech if it ever dies.

Perhaps this is at least some of the problems you are encountering?  If so, 
you might try the latest code...


Regards,

Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team


Thomas Ward wrote:
> Hi Jude,
> I can tell you that your problem is not unique, and it doesn't seam to be
> memory related. I have ran Fedora and Mandriva with systems of 512 MB or
> greater and Gnopernicus 0.9.12 and greater seam to high dive for no reason
> at all.
> An example I was opening evolution like I did several times that day, and
> suddenly gnopernicus bit the dust. No speech, no responce, and wouldn't even
> exit properly. I crashed out of x, logged back in, and gnopernicus says it
> can't load festival.
> I ended up rebooting the machine. Which I do about four times a day on
> average do to gnopernicus high diving and not coming back for one reason or
> another.
> To bad I can't use mozilla, Open Office, and other gui apps at the shell as
> I would happily stay there with speakup or something than put up gnopernicus
> crashing about 5 times aday.
> Anyway, I wouldn't recommend using Firefox as it simply doesn't work with
> gnopernicus. I am currently adding multimedia for Mandriva, and I am hoping
> to plug it in to Sun Mozilla. I'll be sure to let you know if I get
> something reasonable working in x.
> Hth.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel shellworld net>
> To: <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 11:56 PM
> Subject: can't get multimedia working with any browser
>
>
>
> > Having downloaded and installed mailcap-stuff.tar.gz I first tried
> > listening to a realplayer stream using lynx.  No go, display wasn't set.
> > Okay no problem I figure I can go into xwindows and use gnopernicus and
> > maybe firefox or epiphany.  Maybe one of those browsers will work but
> > hitting the f7 key to try to get some screen output seems on this system
> > to actually be the crash gnopernicus immediately key.  I could understand
> > the desire of gnopernicus to do a high dive if all that was on this system
> > was 128MB of ram which was the case earlier this week.  However there's
> > now 416MB of ram available in lower memory and this is happening.  This is
> > a fedora core 3 installation that has been modified for multimedia via the
> > extra yum repositories.  The network was opened with ifup ppp0 before
> > startx ever ran.  So what prerequisite configuration of gnome did I most
> > likely neglect?
> >
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