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Ceel
offlineAdministrator
Hello,
I installed an old game (from a converted .deb) that uses .s3m music files.
On SliTaz Rolling, the game doesn't start (Fatal: Cannot open winner.s3m: Unrecognized music format) but it runs correctly on a debian based distro.
I didn't find any informations about this format that helped me.
Does someone have an idea?
alanyih
offlineAdministrator
Programs that open S3M files
https://fileinfo.com/extension/s3m
Linux
VideoLAN VLC media player
Schism Tracker
MilkyTracker
alanyih
offlineAdministrator
deadbeef
Plays nearly anything you throw at it
https://deadbeef.sourceforge.io/
Mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, ape, wv/iso.wv, wav, m4a/m4b/mp4 (aac and alac), mpc, tta, cd audio, and many more
Nsf, ay, vtx, vgm/vgz, spc and many other popular chiptune formats
SID with HVSC song length database support for sid
Tracker modules - mod, s3m, it, xm, etc
And even more formats using FFMPEG
Ceel
offlineAdministrator
Hi alanyih,
Thank you for you help.
I focused too much on the error message. When I launch the game from a terminal, various messages are displayed and just before the game opens I can read
Info: Using SDL and GLUT
Then the game immediately closes and there are two messages more in the terminal:
Info: Using SDL_mixer
Fatal: Cannot open winner.s3m: Unrecognized music format
My understanding is the game calls SDL_mixer to read s3m files and I think the problem comes from libsdl-mixer.
I had a look at the cook log of the package and I found in it
[...]
checking for libmikmod-config... no
configure: WARNING: *** Unable to find MikMod library (http://mikmod.raphnet.net/)
configure: WARNING: MOD support disabled
[...]
When I enter the url in the web browser I'm redirected to the homepage of MikMod (http://mikmod.sourceforge.net/):
What is MikMod?
Mikmod is a module player and library supporting many formats, including mod, s3m, it, and xm. Originally a player for MS-DOS, MikMod has been ported to other platforms, such as Unix, Macintosh, BeOS, and Java(!!)
[...]
Dec 15 2017: Version control migrated to Git:
The sources were moved to a Git repository on SourceForge. There is also a mirror at Github.
I installed libmikmod but as I expected I always get the error.
I had a look at the configure script and the sources of libsdl-mixer but honestly, I don't know what and where to look...
And the libsdl-mixer package could have other problems; always in the cooklog:
checking fluidsynth.h usability... no
checking fluidsynth.h presence... no
checking for fluidsynth.h... no
checking for fluid_player_add_mem in -lfluidsynth... no
configure: WARNING: *** Unable to find FluidSynth library (http://www.fluidsynth.org/)
configure: WARNING: FluidSynth support disabled
[...]
checking FLAC/export.h usability... no
checking FLAC/export.h presence... no
checking for FLAC/export.h... no
configure: WARNING: *** Unable to find FLAC library (http://flac.sourceforge.net/)
configure: WARNING: FLAC support disabled
[...]
checking for smpeg-config... no
checking for SMPEG - version >= 0.4.3... no
*** The smpeg-config script installed by SMPEG could not be found
*** If SMPEG was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the SMPEG_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to smpeg-config.
configure: WARNING: *** Unable to find SMPEG library (http://icculus.org/smpeg/)
configure: WARNING: MP3 support disabled
Ceel
offlineAdministrator
Hi gibor,
Thanks for interest.
The game is GL-117, an old combat flight simulator.
Found a solution!
Yes, the problem comes from libsdl-mixer.
I've installed libmikmod, mikmod, fluidsynth, flac, libsmpeg and their -dev before to recook libsdl-mixer:
[...]
checking for SDL... yes
checking for pow in -lm... yes
checking for GCC -fvisibility=hidden option... yes
checking for fork... yes
checking for vfork... yes
checking for libmikmod-config... /usr/bin/libmikmod-config
checking for libmikmod - version >= 3.1.10... yes
-- dynamic libmikmod -> libmikmod.so.3
checking fluidsynth.h usability... yes
checking fluidsynth.h presence... yes
checking for fluidsynth.h... yes
checking for fluid_player_add_mem in -lfluidsynth... yes
-- dynamic libfluidsyth -> libfluidsynth.so.2
checking vorbis/vorbisfile.h usability... yes
checking vorbis/vorbisfile.h presence... yes
checking for vorbis/vorbisfile.h... yes
checking for ov_open_callbacks in -lvorbisfile... yes
-- dynamic libvorbisfile -> libvorbisfile.so.3
checking FLAC/export.h usability... yes
checking FLAC/export.h presence... yes
checking for FLAC/export.h... yes
checking for libflac so-name version >= 8... yes
checking FLAC/stream_decoder.h usability... yes
checking FLAC/stream_decoder.h presence... yes
checking for FLAC/stream_decoder.h... yes
checking for FLAC__stream_decoder_new in -lFLAC... yes
-- dynamic libFLAC -> libFLAC.so.8
checking signal.h usability... yes
checking signal.h presence... yes
checking for signal.h... yes
checking for setbuf... yes
checking for smpeg-config... /usr/bin/smpeg-config
checking for SMPEG - version >= 0.4.3... yes
-- dynamic libsmpeg -> libsmpeg-0.4.so.0
[...]
Then
# tazpkg -i libsdl-mixer --forced
# tazpkg -b libsdl-mixer
$ gl-117
:)
I'm now going to try to compile and install lac (linux air combat, a new flight simulator (11/2019) derived from an old one ;) )
libsdl-mixer-1.2.12.tazpkg (52.7 KB, 233 downloads) 4 years old 
R8
offlineMember
Hello,
FYI I had the same problem with the game 'Pingus'. I had no music. The files are .it and .s3m.
I followed 2 steps and it's now OK :
(1) I installed libmikmod from the package manager.
(2) I installed libsdl-mixer from the attachment in the message from Ceel (Thanks Ceel!).
And I blocked the package libsdl-mixer.
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