PlayMusic crashes Game Editor

[lverona]

Hey fellas!

Switched to Ubuntu 12.04.

Sudden problem - trying to add PlayMusic (or PlayMusic2) to the script - as soon as I choose the ogg file from the dialog - GameEditor crashes with "Floating point exception (core dumped)".

What could I be doing wrong?

[skydereign]

The usual reason is that gE used oss, though if you are using a newer version of gE, that should be fixed. There used to be an alsaplayer supporting version of gE on the .net site, but I believe that change has been implemented in the normal version of gE. But if downloading a new copy of gE doesn't fix the problem, then you'll have to install oss sound support.

[lverona]

Does it mean that a person with no oss support would not be albe to run the compiled version too?

[lverona]

Btw, I am on Game Editor 1.40, downloaded it just two days ago. Says, version of Sep 2010.

[lverona]

It seems I do have all the oss stuff installed, but the problem persists. Any other advice?

[skydereign]

gE's version numbers were never updated for 1.4, so 1.4.0 can mean any number of versions. The alsa version was at least dec 2010, which I guess means the binaries were never updated. I would recommend using the alsa version, but right now that is still giving the same problem for me, and I'm not sure if the corresponding export engine was ever updated. I don't remember ever downloading it. I believe the 1.4 source has the alsa version, which can still be downloaded I believe. But you'd have to build it yourself, and that can be a bit of a chore.

It seems I do have all the oss stuff installed, but the problem persists. Any other advice?

Hrm... it was a while ago that I had to jump through these loops. There might be something else contributing, but I can't remember what it was. I'll have to look into it.

[lverona]

I guess GE must have a problem with my system. I cannot add a wav through PlaySound2 either, it says - "This wav file is not supported" and asks for a PCM encoded wav file. Which is weird since I used same wave file collection for other games on Ubuntu 10.04 and it all worked fine.

Maybe I should try the older version of GE I used?

[lverona]

Tried "older" version, at least which I used on Lucid. But the effect is the same. Looks like this is something systematic, something connected to Ubuntu 12.04. I am on Xubuntu, btw.

[lverona]

Okay, a new thing which I uncovered - is that there is no sound in any of the compiled games I made with GE on my Ubuntu 12.04. Pulse Audio panel doesn't even show anything. No wonder GE crashes.

[lverona]

Fixed this by running Game Editor with padsp. Hope 1.5 version is coming out sooooon