Maya And Importing Sound Issues

[darrenbarker]

I've installed Maya Unlimited 8.5 64-bit on Fedora 7, CentOS 5 and OpenSUSE 10.2 on a dell Precision 490 Workstation with a G8800gts card.

When trying to import wav files to a scene, I get a libaudiofile.so error and the import fails. I've then followed advice to system link the distro's libaudiofile.so.0 to /usr/autodesk/maya/lib/libaudiofile.so and the import succeeds. I can choose the wav file and press play but no actual sound is heard (and I did choose real-time playback). If I hold down the left mousebutton over the time slider and slide it across I do get sound, albeit it's completely distorted. I've tried 3 different soundcards - the onboard sigmatel, an old-school Creative SB 128 and a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy. Without Success.

On a completely different computer running 32bit maya I managed to get normal playback using a DMX 6fire sound card (ICE1712 chip/driver) - running ubuntu. This computer failed playback on OpenSUSE 10.2 - 64bit.

I've also tried a combination of OSS, threaded OSS, Alsa and Alsa's OSS emulation, with no luck.

Please if you got a solution, a suggestion
or a working setup with maya 64bit in linux i'd like to hear of your configuration!

[skullmunky]

working from memory a bit here - i've had sound playback working fine with maya 7 in suse 9.3 64bit, though of course that maya is itself only 32bit. you could try out various wav formats. try 22khz if 44 isn't working; see if it's 16 bit pcm or floating point; sometimes it seems to matter. can you play the sound file in other apps besides maya, like just from the desktop?