Development Team/Sound

Introduction

This subpage of the Development Team is aimed at bringing together all known issues and solutions relating to sound on Sugar. The expansion of this wiki will enable a coordinated approach to fixing the known issues. It will also allow contributors, from inside and outside the Sugar community, to participate and follow the work being done. Please list current initiatives to improve the sound on Sugar by editing this wiki using the format described below.

Crowdsourcing Audio and Image Localization

Explanation

• Pootle doesn't currently support the localization of audio and image files in a manner similar to text
• We need a way to extract needed audio translations and images and provide a mechanism that comm
• Greater details are in these blog posts:
  • http://karmaproject.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/localizing-images-and-audio-files/
  • http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/335

Current available solutions

• alfresco
• other software packages

Proposed solution

• modifying pootle to support uploading audio and image files
• using something like alfresco

Status

• Under discussion, meeting to be held at 11:30 UTC July 21 on #sugar-meeting
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Loss of Sound Volume

Explanation

• [Information on known issue here]
• ...

Current available solutions

• In Terminal, amixer sset PCM 90% unmute
• olpc:FixSound

Proposed solution

• [Information on solution here]
• ...

Status

• http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg08016.html
• http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9248

People

• David Schönstein