 | | | alsa-related issues [was: Problems With Xine] | alsa-related issues [was: Problems With Xine] 2003-05-03 - By Blaise Pascal
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Thanks for the response. I was about to do swap with
an extra notebook hard drive and do a test reinstall
without alsa. I will still do it to see if I still
have problems.
The alsa driver I got *is* version 0.9.3. Basically I
used a stock Shrike install, with alsa, xine (and its
dependencies), and xmms-plugin coming from
freshrpms.net.
Also I might have spoke too soon regarding playing
mpg 's. Since my original post, I had installed gxine
on my original install. I played an mpg file, paused,
went to the kitchen, came back, and resumed playback.
Video was still on pause, sound continued, and gxine
froze. Tried this a second time (without actually
going to the kitchen <g >), and then video continued,
but sound didn 't. Gxine still froze. Very weird.
I 'll try to do more "trying things out " with different
programs and combinations when I can. Thanks again.
BP
--- Florin Andrei <florin@(protected) > wrote:
> There are known issues when playing DVDs with recent
> xine versions and with the xmms-alsa plugin on an
> ALSA-enabled system.
> From what you 've said, it looks like the actual
> problem with xine is when handling non-stereo sound
> tracks (e.g. Dolby 5.1 or Dolby Surround), which is
> consistent with some issues that i 've seen.
>
> I 'm not entirely sure whether it 's a problem with
> xine itself, with ALSA itself or a combination.
> I 've seen xine playing just fine on non-ALSA
> systems, i 've seen other media players (Ogle)
> playing just fine on ALSA.
> Also, the old "stable " non-development xine version
> (0.9.13) seems to have no issues whatsoever.
> But, XMMS with ALSA plugin has issues, while with
> OSS plugin plays fine.
>
> The weird thing is, it happens only on some systems
> (mine 's included).
> Looks like it 's all fine and dandy for the majority
> of users. That 's kinda annoying.
>
> The best thing you can do is to report the issue on
> the xine-users and alsa-users mailing lists,
> providing as many of these details as you can:
> - xine version, and where did you get it from
> - ALSA version and where did you get it from
> - kernel and distribution version
> - exactly what kind of media plays fine, and what
> kind doesn 't, and what are the errors (pretty much
> what you already did in your message here, but add
> more scenarios and copy/paste the console messages);
> try as many different kinds of media as you can:
> DVD, SVCD, DivX, Windows Media, QuickTime, Real
> Media, MP3, anything that 's supported by xine; if
you
> get a chance to install the Gxine interface (the
> alternative GUI to xine) try and play the web TV and
> radio broadcast stations too, to see how Web
> streaming works. If you could test the Mozilla
> plugin too, that would be great.
> - previous item, repeated for a different sound
> driver (-A oss)
> - try and see if other ALSA-enabled apps are having
> issues: XMMS with OSS plugin and with ALSA plugin,
> alsaplayer, anything else (games?)
> - hardware details about your system (especially
> sound card info)
>
> If you got your packages from freshrpms.net, try and
> get the xmms-alsa plugin, and maybe alsaplayer too,
> and see what happens.
>
> That would be a big help to fix this annoying bug.
> Thank you.
>
> I 'll post a similar message to the aforementioned
> mailing lists later on today, provided that i 'll run
> into similar issues with the most recent ALSA
> drivers (i had these problems with 0.9.2, i just
> upgraded to 0.9.3 but didn 't tested yet).
>
> --
> Florin Andrei
>
> "When ideas fail, words come in very handy. " -
> Goethe
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Blaise Pascal
pascal256@(protected)
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See
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