Multiple subsongs start playing before the current song is finished about gbsplay

[mmitch]

As we don't have a "fast-forward" function, this sounds like a problem with the sound driver.

• Do you use the dsound plugout?
• Does this happen with every .gbs file?
• Does it happen with the nightmode.gbs included with gbsplay?

I don't have any Windows machine to test this on, so I'll have to forward it to our mailing list at http://lists.uguu.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gbsplay-dev

[Fighter19]

It does happen with at least 2 gbs files.
(Tested Pokémon and nightmode)

I didn't yet try the dsound plugout (as it wasn't built with the current configuration).
I was using the oss output plugin.

I will try to build with dsound then report back.

EDIT: As I'm using msys the configure script doesn't currently include dsound (which is configured to be built only with cygwin).

[Fighter19]

The dsound plugin works fine (after I removed the cygwin check from the script).
Maybe the problem is on the side of msys?

EDIT: Just tested the oss plugin on CentOS. It works fine there.

[mmitch]

It seems to be a problem with our configure script - we simply don't know about MSYS, we currently only support Cygwin (although I don't know when the last build under Cygwin was tested…).

Did you have to change anything else in the configure script?
Or did you just have to explicitely build and use the dsound plugout?

MinGW/MSYS seems to run under wine, so I think we could have a look at supporting it. I'll propose that in the mailing list, as I currently don't have much time for gbsplay.

Thanks for the report!

[Fighter19]

No nothing special was needed, I only changed the line

if [ "$cygwin_build" = yes -a "$use_dsound" != no ]; then

to

if [ "$use_dsound" != no ]; then

I only did this as a workaround, as this probably would try to use dsound on Linux.

[mmitch]

We finally got an MSYS2 installation to run and we came up with exactly the same change as you did. The configure script will in fact check for dsound on Linux, but that is no problem: It will simply fail like every other missing dependency. On Cygwin and MSYS2, dsound should be picked up.

Thus gbsplay should now work out-of-the-box under MSYS2 starting with commit 691e7b8

Thanks to your bug report gbsplay now officially supports a new platform 👍