Dear Campcaster-support mailing list,

I have a sound problem with Campcaster, if you can help me with this I would be
quite happy...

On a relative new and usual desktop PC (with an AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3500+) I
installed Ubuntu 7.04 (x86, Standard Edition for Desktop PC). After that I did
everything as described in the "Cheat Sheet" (Link:
http://code.campware.org/projects/campcaster/wiki/CheatSheet) and installed
Campcaster via apt-get, except the Campcaster Studio-package which is not
needed in the environment. The scheduler output is assigned to hw0,0 , which is
the onboard sound card:

sudo cat /proc/asound/cards

0 [VT82xx ]: HDA-Intel - HDA VIA VT82xx
HDA VIA VT82xx at 0xfbffc000 irq 26

But every time the scheduler plays scheduled programs the sound starts and stops
(and then starts and stops again and so on and so on) approximately every half
second. The scheduler stops the play-out after the original length of the
files, but because of the stuttering the file is stretched and has not ended.
This only happens with Campcaster, the other sound applications (e.g. Movie
Player) work fine. On a previous installation (which was very like or maybe
even the same as the one described above) I had the same problem and got an
error warning in the terminal:

ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave

As a linux and ubuntu newbie I have no idea what to do, the hole audio
administration seems to be very complicated when you're coming from a Mac OS X
background. By the way, I have three more question about with Campcaster I also
would like to solve:


I. Shouldn't there be a drop-down menu for adding audio stream files when
accessing Campcaster Web? I read that in the manual (Link:
http://code.campware.org/manuals/campcaster/1.1/index.php?id!) but can't see
it on my installation and not at the Campcaster online demo too (Link:
http://campcaster-demo.campware.org) when accessing both with Firefox.


II. I wasn't able to use the script for mass importing of audio files. Is there
something wrong in my command?

sast@sast:~$ sudo /opt/campcaster/bin/import.sh --directory


The command is followed by this message:

bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'


III. When trying to import audio files through Campcaster Web I got at some
MP3-files the error warning "unable to determine file format" and can't import
them. Is there something wrong with the files? I created them with
Audacity/LAME or with the MP3-export-option from Pro Tools. With other apps
they work fine, also on other PCs.


Thank you for reading. And if you do: Thanks even more for answering.


Regards,
Martin


P.S: I'm evaluating Campcaster for a free and non-commerical radio station here
in Hamburg, Germany and even it's not regulary running by now it's seems very
interessting for us to be our first automation solution (for our morning
programm so everybody can hopefully sleep longer soon...).



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