Re: [gentoo-user] xine - no sound on DVDs - solved (sort of)
Hi, Am Dienstag, 25. September 2007 23:24:27 schrieb Mark Knecht: On 9/25/07, Michael Schreckenbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mark, Am Mittwoch, 19. September 2007 schrieb Mark Knecht: Hi, Message is to Randy and others that have been helping me with my audio problems with xine. This evening I discovered the root cause of the problem of no sound when playing DVDs in xine. Unfortunately I don't have a good solution yet. Maybe someone knows how to fix this at the command line? OK, xine does produce sound, but this machine has multiple sound cards and it's choosing the one that goes to the home theater system, not the PC's sound card: maybe I missed that one in this thread, but did you look at xine's audio-configuration? Could you post the output of grep audio .xine/config here? Regards, Michael Hi Michael, Thanks for taking a look. Let me know if you see anything or want more info. Cheers, Mark afaik those are all default values, except audio.alsa_hw_mixer:0. I don't think, that's a problem. Does xine play every sound through the wrong device or only DVDs (5.1)? Maybe there's a stale asoundrc in your home, somehow redirecting plug:surround51:0 to the second device? I'm out of ideas now, it seems :( Regards, Michael dragonfly mark # cat .xine/config | grep audio #gui.post_audio_plugin:goom #gui.audio_mixer_method:Sound card audio.alsa_hw_mixer:0 # audio driver to use #audio.driver:auto #audio.a52.dynamic_range:0 # downmix audio to 2 channel surround stereo #audio.a52.surround_downmix:0 #audio.a52.level:100 #audio.device.alsa_default_device:default #audio.device.alsa_front_device:plug:front:default #audio.device.alsa_mixer_name:PCM #audio.device.alsa_mmap_enable:0 #audio.device.alsa_passthrough_device:iec958:AES0=0x6,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x0,AE S3=0x2 #audio.device.alsa_surround40_device:plug:surround40:0 #audio.device.alsa_surround51_device:plug:surround51:0 #audio.output.speaker_arrangement:Stereo 2.0 #audio.synchronization.passthrough_offset:0 # play audio even on slow/fast speeds #audio.synchronization.slow_fast_audio:0 # method to sync audio and video #audio.synchronization.av_sync_method:metronom feedback #audio.synchronization.force_rate:0 #audio.synchronization.resample_mode:auto # startup audio volume #audio.volume.mixer_volume:50 #audio.volume.remember_volume:0 # device used for CD audio #media.audio_cd.device:/dev/cdrom #media.audio_cd.drive_slowdown:4 #media.audio_cd.use_cddb:1 #media.audio_cd.cddb_cachedir:/home/mark/.xine/cddbcache #media.audio_cd.cddb_port:8880 #media.audio_cd.cddb_server:freedb.freedb.org # number of audio buffers #engine.buffers.audio_num_buffers:230 # priority for dvaudio decoder #engine.decoder_priorities.dvaudio:0 # priority for ffmpegaudio decoder #engine.decoder_priorities.ffmpegaudio:0 dragonfly mark # dragonfly mark # uname -a Linux dragonfly 2.6.20-gentoo-r1 #4 SMP PREEMPT Tue May 15 06:22:55 PDT 2007 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux dragonfly mark # dragonfly mark # cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [ICH5 ]: ICH4 - Intel ICH5 Intel ICH5 with ALC655 at 0xfa081000, irq 21 1 [default]: USB-Audio - USB Audio CODEC Burr-Brown from TI USB Audio CODEC at usb-:00:1d.1-1, full s dragonfly mark # dragonfly mark # cat /proc/asound/version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14rc1 (Tue Jan 09 09:56:17 2007 UTC). dragonfly mark # -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xine - no sound on DVDs - solved (sort of)
On 9/26/07, Michael Schreckenbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP afaik those are all default values, except audio.alsa_hw_mixer:0. I don't think, that's a problem. Does xine play every sound through the wrong device or only DVDs (5.1)? Maybe there's a stale asoundrc in your home, somehow redirecting plug:surround51:0 to the second device? I'm out of ideas now, it seems :( Regards, Michael Hi Michael, Thanks for responding. As I stated in the original thread, long since cast the the email bone pile, the only application that seems to have a problem on this machine is xine. Aqualung (an audio file CD player) sends audio to the Intel chip. mplayer, playing DVDs, sends audio to the Intel chip. Only xine by default is sending audio to the external USB converter. The problem in xine is not specific to DVDs. It does the same thing playing CDs. Note that with Aqualung I can reroute audio to the external USB converter by purposely routing audio to the ':1' sound device, exactly as Alsa should perform I believe. As far as I can tell the machine has neither an asound.state file or any .asoundrc files: dragonfly ~ # slocate .asoundrc dragonfly ~ # slocate asound.state /var/lib/alsa/asound.state dragonfly ~ # Also, the problem is not specific to a user. It happens in my account, my wife's account and my son's account. It seems to be a global issue. As background, I have a second machine with dual sound cards. It has the same generic Intel HDA audio device in it. It's second sound card is an RME HDSP9652. xine works fine on that machine. Audio goes to the Intel chip as it should. I'm at a complete loss on this one. It's starting to feel as if it might be an Alsa issue and specific to USB audio. As I've gotten no response from the xine-users list and this seems to be beyond the typical Gentoo issue I suppose I might try those folks, assuming no one else here has any experiments for me to try. Thanks again for your help. Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xine - no sound on DVDs - solved (sort of)
Hi Mark, Am Mittwoch, 19. September 2007 schrieb Mark Knecht: Hi, Message is to Randy and others that have been helping me with my audio problems with xine. This evening I discovered the root cause of the problem of no sound when playing DVDs in xine. Unfortunately I don't have a good solution yet. Maybe someone knows how to fix this at the command line? OK, xine does produce sound, but this machine has multiple sound cards and it's choosing the one that goes to the home theater system, not the PC's sound card: maybe I missed that one in this thread, but did you look at xine's audio-configuration? Could you post the output of grep audio .xine/config here? Regards, Michael -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xine - no sound on DVDs - solved (sort of)
On 9/25/07, Michael Schreckenbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mark, Am Mittwoch, 19. September 2007 schrieb Mark Knecht: Hi, Message is to Randy and others that have been helping me with my audio problems with xine. This evening I discovered the root cause of the problem of no sound when playing DVDs in xine. Unfortunately I don't have a good solution yet. Maybe someone knows how to fix this at the command line? OK, xine does produce sound, but this machine has multiple sound cards and it's choosing the one that goes to the home theater system, not the PC's sound card: maybe I missed that one in this thread, but did you look at xine's audio-configuration? Could you post the output of grep audio .xine/config here? Regards, Michael Hi Michael, Thanks for taking a look. Let me know if you see anything or want more info. Cheers, Mark dragonfly mark # cat .xine/config | grep audio #gui.post_audio_plugin:goom #gui.audio_mixer_method:Sound card audio.alsa_hw_mixer:0 # audio driver to use #audio.driver:auto #audio.a52.dynamic_range:0 # downmix audio to 2 channel surround stereo #audio.a52.surround_downmix:0 #audio.a52.level:100 #audio.device.alsa_default_device:default #audio.device.alsa_front_device:plug:front:default #audio.device.alsa_mixer_name:PCM #audio.device.alsa_mmap_enable:0 #audio.device.alsa_passthrough_device:iec958:AES0=0x6,AES1=0x82,AES2=0x0,AES3=0x2 #audio.device.alsa_surround40_device:plug:surround40:0 #audio.device.alsa_surround51_device:plug:surround51:0 #audio.output.speaker_arrangement:Stereo 2.0 #audio.synchronization.passthrough_offset:0 # play audio even on slow/fast speeds #audio.synchronization.slow_fast_audio:0 # method to sync audio and video #audio.synchronization.av_sync_method:metronom feedback #audio.synchronization.force_rate:0 #audio.synchronization.resample_mode:auto # startup audio volume #audio.volume.mixer_volume:50 #audio.volume.remember_volume:0 # device used for CD audio #media.audio_cd.device:/dev/cdrom #media.audio_cd.drive_slowdown:4 #media.audio_cd.use_cddb:1 #media.audio_cd.cddb_cachedir:/home/mark/.xine/cddbcache #media.audio_cd.cddb_port:8880 #media.audio_cd.cddb_server:freedb.freedb.org # number of audio buffers #engine.buffers.audio_num_buffers:230 # priority for dvaudio decoder #engine.decoder_priorities.dvaudio:0 # priority for ffmpegaudio decoder #engine.decoder_priorities.ffmpegaudio:0 dragonfly mark # dragonfly mark # uname -a Linux dragonfly 2.6.20-gentoo-r1 #4 SMP PREEMPT Tue May 15 06:22:55 PDT 2007 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux dragonfly mark # dragonfly mark # cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [ICH5 ]: ICH4 - Intel ICH5 Intel ICH5 with ALC655 at 0xfa081000, irq 21 1 [default]: USB-Audio - USB Audio CODEC Burr-Brown from TI USB Audio CODEC at usb-:00:1d.1-1, full s dragonfly mark # dragonfly mark # cat /proc/asound/version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14rc1 (Tue Jan 09 09:56:17 2007 UTC). dragonfly mark # -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xine - no sound on DVDs - solved (sort of)
Ok, here is my flags: gentoo ~ # emerge -vp k3b These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] app-cdr/k3b-0.12.17 USE=alsa hal kde -arts -css -debug -dvdr* -encode* -ffmpeg* -flac -mp3* -musepack -musicbrainz -sndfile -vcd* -vorbis -xinerama LINGUAS=pt_BR -af -bg -bn -br -bs -ca -cs -cy -da -de -el -en_GB -es -et -eu -fi -fr -ga -he -hi -hu -is -it -ja -km -lt -mk -ms -nb -nds -nl -nn -pa -pl -pt -ro -ru -se -sl -sr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -sv -ta -tr -uk -zh_CN -zh_TW 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB gentoo ~ # I hope it helps you! Danilo 2007/9/19, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 19 September 2007, Mark Knecht wrote: On 9/19/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you played around with alsaconf and alsactl? Also, you should make sure that there is no old asound.conf or ~/.asoundrc left in your system. I haven't. Not totally sure how I'd change anything by doing that. Both cards work with other apps. It's just xine that hard routing the audio to the second card, at least as far as I've seen so far. gmplayer routes DVD audio to the first card correctly. Just an idea. I am not sure why your xine is behaving like this . . . If two cards are registered I would expect that xine will give you an option to choose between the two. I think it does in the preferences area. It uses the Alsa language that only Alsa developers totally get but seems to end in :0 for card 0 and :1 for card 1. However I already have it set to card 0 but audio goes to card 1... I'm flummoxed. It wouldn't be a udev rule that you have forgotten about . . . but then this would not just affect xine. BTW, you may also want to set your sound card in /etc/make.conf. I didn't know Gentoo changed the way that is done. Thanks. I've added it. It did not cause any changes in what gets built though. With regards to your flags, I'd add ffmpeg. It installs the libavcodec for enc/decoding a multitude of video and audio data types. Good luck. -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] xine - no sound on DVDs - solved (sort of)
On 9/20/07, Danilo Marcelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, here is my flags: gentoo ~ # emerge -vp k3b These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] app-cdr/k3b-0.12.17 USE=alsa hal kde -arts -css -debug -dvdr* -encode* -ffmpeg* -flac -mp3* -musepack -musicbrainz -sndfile -vcd* -vorbis -xinerama LINGUAS=pt_BR -af -bg -bn -br -bs -ca -cs -cy -da -de -el -en_GB -es -et -eu -fi -fr -ga -he -hi -hu -is -it -ja -km -lt -mk -ms -nb -nds -nl -nn -pa -pl -pt -ro -ru -se -sl -sr - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -sv -ta -tr -uk -zh_CN -zh_TW 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB gentoo ~ # I hope it helps you! Danilo 2007/9/19, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 19 September 2007, Mark Knecht wrote: On 9/19/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you played around with alsaconf and alsactl? Also, you should make sure that there is no old asound.conf or ~/.asoundrc left in your system. I haven't. Not totally sure how I'd change anything by doing that. Both cards work with other apps. It's just xine that hard routing the audio to the second card, at least as far as I've seen so far. gmplayer routes DVD audio to the first card correctly. Just an idea. I am not sure why your xine is behaving like this . . . If two cards are registered I would expect that xine will give you an option to choose between the two. I think it does in the preferences area. It uses the Alsa language that only Alsa developers totally get but seems to end in :0 for card 0 and :1 for card 1. However I already have it set to card 0 but audio goes to card 1... I'm flummoxed. It wouldn't be a udev rule that you have forgotten about . . . but then this would not just affect xine. BTW, you may also want to set your sound card in /etc/make.conf. I didn't know Gentoo changed the way that is done. Thanks. I've added it. It did not cause any changes in what gets built though. With regards to your flags, I'd add ffmpeg. It installs the libavcodec for enc/decoding a multitude of video and audio data types. Good luck. -- Regards, Mick Hi, Tried it all. No luck. xine still sends audio to the USB sound card and not to the on-board, default sound chip. I also tested CD audio. Same thing. xine sends everything it's doing to the USB port and not the the default sound card, but only on this system. I'm out of ideas. I'll file a bug in Bugzilla I guess. Thanks very much for your support. I appreciated it even if we didn't manage to solve the problem. Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xine - no sound on DVDs - solved (sort of)
OK. Did you try to remove USB support and check sound? Maybe it works . . . 2007/9/20, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 9/20/07, Danilo Marcelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, here is my flags: gentoo ~ # emerge -vp k3b These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] app-cdr/k3b-0.12.17 USE=alsa hal kde -arts -css -debug -dvdr* -encode* -ffmpeg* -flac -mp3* -musepack -musicbrainz -sndfile -vcd* -vorbis -xinerama LINGUAS=pt_BR -af -bg -bn -br -bs -ca -cs -cy -da -de -el -en_GB -es -et -eu -fi -fr -ga -he -hi -hu -is -it -ja -km -lt -mk -ms -nb -nds -nl -nn -pa -pl -pt -ro -ru -se -sl -sr - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -sv -ta -tr -uk -zh_CN -zh_TW 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB gentoo ~ # I hope it helps you! Danilo 2007/9/19, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 19 September 2007, Mark Knecht wrote: On 9/19/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you played around with alsaconf and alsactl? Also, you should make sure that there is no old asound.conf or ~/.asoundrc left in your system. I haven't. Not totally sure how I'd change anything by doing that. Both cards work with other apps. It's just xine that hard routing the audio to the second card, at least as far as I've seen so far. gmplayer routes DVD audio to the first card correctly. Just an idea. I am not sure why your xine is behaving like this . . . If two cards are registered I would expect that xine will give you an option to choose between the two. I think it does in the preferences area. It uses the Alsa language that only Alsa developers totally get but seems to end in :0 for card 0 and :1 for card 1. However I already have it set to card 0 but audio goes to card 1... I'm flummoxed. It wouldn't be a udev rule that you have forgotten about . . . but then this would not just affect xine. BTW, you may also want to set your sound card in /etc/make.conf. I didn't know Gentoo changed the way that is done. Thanks. I've added it. It did not cause any changes in what gets built though. With regards to your flags, I'd add ffmpeg. It installs the libavcodec for enc/decoding a multitude of video and audio data types. Good luck. -- Regards, Mick Hi, Tried it all. No luck. xine still sends audio to the USB sound card and not to the on-board, default sound chip. I also tested CD audio. Same thing. xine sends everything it's doing to the USB port and not the the default sound card, but only on this system. I'm out of ideas. I'll file a bug in Bugzilla I guess. Thanks very much for your support. I appreciated it even if we didn't manage to solve the problem. Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xine - no sound on DVDs - solved (sort of)
I was reading your first message again and now i understood your real problem. Some tips: 1) Change your player to test; 2) Remove your internal sound card 3) Test alsaconf again I'm doing my best to help you. Good luck! 2007/9/20, Danilo Marcelo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OK. Did you try to remove USB support and check sound? Maybe it works . . . 2007/9/20, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 9/20/07, Danilo Marcelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, here is my flags: gentoo ~ # emerge -vp k3b These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] app-cdr/k3b-0.12.17 USE=alsa hal kde -arts -css -debug -dvdr* -encode* -ffmpeg* -flac -mp3* -musepack -musicbrainz -sndfile -vcd* -vorbis -xinerama LINGUAS=pt_BR -af -bg -bn -br -bs -ca -cs -cy -da -de -el -en_GB -es -et -eu -fi -fr -ga -he -hi -hu -is -it -ja -km -lt -mk -ms -nb -nds -nl -nn -pa -pl -pt -ro -ru -se -sl -sr - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -sv -ta -tr -uk -zh_CN -zh_TW 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB gentoo ~ # I hope it helps you! Danilo 2007/9/19, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 19 September 2007, Mark Knecht wrote: On 9/19/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you played around with alsaconf and alsactl? Also, you should make sure that there is no old asound.conf or ~/.asoundrc left in your system. I haven't. Not totally sure how I'd change anything by doing that. Both cards work with other apps. It's just xine that hard routing the audio to the second card, at least as far as I've seen so far. gmplayer routes DVD audio to the first card correctly. Just an idea. I am not sure why your xine is behaving like this . . . If two cards are registered I would expect that xine will give you an option to choose between the two. I think it does in the preferences area. It uses the Alsa language that only Alsa developers totally get but seems to end in :0 for card 0 and :1 for card 1. However I already have it set to card 0 but audio goes to card 1... I'm flummoxed. It wouldn't be a udev rule that you have forgotten about . . . but then this would not just affect xine. BTW, you may also want to set your sound card in /etc/make.conf. I didn't know Gentoo changed the way that is done. Thanks. I've added it. It did not cause any changes in what gets built though. With regards to your flags, I'd add ffmpeg. It installs the libavcodec for enc/decoding a multitude of video and audio data types. Good luck. -- Regards, Mick Hi, Tried it all. No luck. xine still sends audio to the USB sound card and not to the on-board, default sound chip. I also tested CD audio. Same thing. xine sends everything it's doing to the USB port and not the the default sound card, but only on this system. I'm out of ideas. I'll file a bug in Bugzilla I guess. Thanks very much for your support. I appreciated it even if we didn't manage to solve the problem. Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xine - no sound on DVDs - solved (sort of)
On 9/20/07, Danilo Marcelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was reading your first message again and now i understood your real problem. Some tips: 1) Change your player to test; Again, I have tested audio with Aqualung mplayer on the desktop and Flash in Firefox. They work correctly and go to the internal sound chip. I've tested DVD with gmplayer. DVD's play fine and the audio goes to the internal sound chip. I've tested DVDs and CDs with xine. In both cases xine sends it to the external USB sound card. 2) Remove your internal sound card I cannot. It's a chip on the motherboard. On the other hand it might be interesting, at least for test purposes, to disconnect the external USB device and restart Alsa. Possibly xine will go internal in that case. 3) Test alsaconf again Yeah, been down that road. I've been working with Alsa for almost 8 years now. Unless there is something very subtle going on here my Alsa config is very generic does specify which sound device is associated with which sound card number. And again, every other audio application works fine, and xine worked fine until maybe two weeks ago. Unfortunately my wife doesn't inform me at the first instant things stop working so there's no good way at this point to know what update broke it, or whether the update was xine itself, Alsa, or something else. All that said I'll run alsaconf and see what it would do although IIRC it doesn't actually set up dual sound cards. You have (or had) to do that by hand. I'm doing my best to help you. Good luck! And I do appreciate it! I'll post back about the no-USB experiment later this morning if I get a chance to run it. Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xine - no sound on DVDs - solved (sort of)
Hi, in tip # 2, i'd like to say to remove the drivers, like modprobe -r driver, not phisically. Did you ever try OSS or another sound server? 2007/9/20, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 9/20/07, Danilo Marcelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was reading your first message again and now i understood your real problem. Some tips: 1) Change your player to test; Again, I have tested audio with Aqualung mplayer on the desktop and Flash in Firefox. They work correctly and go to the internal sound chip. I've tested DVD with gmplayer. DVD's play fine and the audio goes to the internal sound chip. I've tested DVDs and CDs with xine. In both cases xine sends it to the external USB sound card. 2) Remove your internal sound card I cannot. It's a chip on the motherboard. On the other hand it might be interesting, at least for test purposes, to disconnect the external USB device and restart Alsa. Possibly xine will go internal in that case. 3) Test alsaconf again Yeah, been down that road. I've been working with Alsa for almost 8 years now. Unless there is something very subtle going on here my Alsa config is very generic does specify which sound device is associated with which sound card number. And again, every other audio application works fine, and xine worked fine until maybe two weeks ago. Unfortunately my wife doesn't inform me at the first instant things stop working so there's no good way at this point to know what update broke it, or whether the update was xine itself, Alsa, or something else. All that said I'll run alsaconf and see what it would do although IIRC it doesn't actually set up dual sound cards. You have (or had) to do that by hand. I'm doing my best to help you. Good luck! And I do appreciate it! I'll post back about the no-USB experiment later this morning if I get a chance to run it. Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xine - no sound on DVDs - solved (sort of)
I had the same problem and resolved installing k3b. I think this error occurs because missing plugins. Try to emerge k3b but check flags before. 2007/9/18, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Message is to Randy and others that have been helping me with my audio problems with xine. This evening I discovered the root cause of the problem of no sound when playing DVDs in xine. Unfortunately I don't have a good solution yet. Maybe someone knows how to fix this at the command line? OK, xine does produce sound, but this machine has multiple sound cards and it's choosing the one that goes to the home theater system, not the PC's sound card: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [ICH5 ]: ICH4 - Intel ICH5 Intel ICH5 with ALC655 at 0xfa081000, irq 21 1 [default]: USB-Audio - USB Audio CODEC Burr-Brown from TI USB Audio CODEC at usb-:00:1d.1-1, full s [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ When I thought of this possibility I turned on the HT receiver, switched to the correct input and low and behold DVD audio was playing. Didn't test to see if it's 5.1. The HT receiver is hooked to the USB device which seems to be marked as 'default'. However hardware setup hasn't changed and earlier versions of xine went to the internal card so something has changed. I don't see anything in /etc/modules.d/alsa that defines the second card as default. Does anyone know how Alsa does that? It's possible that Alsa getting too cleaver by half and somehow 'deciding' that the USB interface is more suited to doing 5.1 than the internal card. If it is then shame on it I say. ;-) Two potential solutions come to mind: 1) At the xine command line tell it which card to use. I'm looking through the xine --help listing but heck if I see how to do that. 2) Somehow tell also to make card 0 default and see if that fixes the problem. Anyway, so the problem is partially solved. I can go the xine-users list and see if anyone there has a quick fix for this. At least it's starting to make some sense. Thanks in advance for any ideas. Cheers, Mark # Alsa 0.9.X kernel modules' configuration file. # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-sound/alsa-utils/files/alsa- modules.conf-rc,v 1.4 2004/11/16 01:31:22 eradicator Exp $ # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore ## ## IMPORTANT: ## You need to customise this section for your specific sound card(s) ## and then run `update-modules' command. ## Read alsa-driver's INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc for more info. ## ## ALSA portion alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 options snd-intel8x0 index=0 alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio options snd-usb-audio index=1 ## OSS/Free portion alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1 ## # OSS/Free portion - card #1 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss ## OSS/Free portion - card #2 alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss # Set this to the correct number of cards. options snd cards_limit=2 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xine - no sound on DVDs - solved (sort of)
On Wednesday 19 September 2007, Danilo Marcelo wrote: [snip] 2007/9/18, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OK, xine does produce sound, but this machine has multiple sound cards and it's choosing the one that goes to the home theater system, not the PC's sound card: Have you played around with alsaconf and alsactl? Also, you should make sure that there is no old asound.conf or ~/.asoundrc left in your system. If two cards are registered I would expect that xine will give you an option to choose between the two. BTW, you may also want to set your sound card in /etc/make.conf. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] xine - no sound on DVDs - solved (sort of)
On 9/19/07, Danilo Marcelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had the same problem and resolved installing k3b. I think this error occurs because missing plugins. Try to emerge k3b but check flags before. 2007/9/18, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Message is to Randy and others that have been helping me with my audio problems with xine. This evening I discovered the root cause of the problem of no sound when playing DVDs in xine. Unfortunately I don't have a good solution yet. Maybe someone knows how to fix this at the command line? OK, xine does produce sound, but this machine has multiple sound cards and it's choosing the one that goes to the home theater system, not the PC's sound card: SNIP Hi, OK, I could try that. Seems very hit and miss though and since I don't know what flags you think might be involved I'll past here before I do it. The current version installed is stable. The flags currently being used are shown here: dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv k3b These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] app-cdr/k3b-0.12.17 USE=alsa dvdr encode flac hal kde mp3 sndfile vorbis -arts -css -debug -ffmpeg -musepack -musicbrainz -vcd -xinerama LINGUAS=-af -bg -bn -br -bs -ca -cs -cy -da -de -el -en_GB -es -et -eu -fi -fr -ga -he -hi -hu -is -it -ja -km -lt -mk -ms -nb -nds -nl -nn -pa -pl -pt -pt_BR -ro -ru -se -sl -sr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -sv -ta -tr -uk -zh_CN -zh_TW 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB dragonfly ~ # I could update to ~x86. If I did this is what would be done: dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv k3b These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] app-cdr/k3b-1.0.3 [0.12.17] USE=alsa dvdr dvdread%* encode flac hal kde mp3 sndfile vorbis -arts -css -debug -emovix% -ffmpeg -musepack -musicbrainz -vcd -xinerama LINGUAS=-af -ar% -bg -br -bs -ca -cs -cy -da -de -el -en_GB -es -et -eu -fa% -fi -fr -ga -gl% -he -hi -hu -is -it -ja -ka% -lt -mk -ms -nb -nds -nl -nn -pa -pl -pt -pt_BR -ru -rw% -se -sk% -sr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -sv -ta -tr -uk -uz% -zh_CN -zh_TW (-bn%) (-km%) (-ro%) (-sl%) 4,974 kB Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 4,974 kB dragonfly ~ # How do your flags compare? I don't mind doing this. (Heck - I'll try anything.) However the machine is clean with emerge -DuN world and revdep-rebuild says there's nothing to rebuild so emerging k3b only rebuilds k3b and not anything that I expect xine to be using. Drop me a note with your flags if you get a chance. Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xine - no sound on DVDs - solved (sort of)
On 9/19/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 19 September 2007, Danilo Marcelo wrote: [snip] 2007/9/18, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OK, xine does produce sound, but this machine has multiple sound cards and it's choosing the one that goes to the home theater system, not the PC's sound card: Have you played around with alsaconf and alsactl? Also, you should make sure that there is no old asound.conf or ~/.asoundrc left in your system. I haven't. Not totally sure how I'd change anything by doing that. Both cards work with other apps. It's just xine that hard routing the audio to the second card, at least as far as I've seen so far. gmplayer routes DVD audio to the first card correctly. If two cards are registered I would expect that xine will give you an option to choose between the two. I think it does in the preferences area. It uses the Alsa language that only Alsa developers totally get but seems to end in :0 for card 0 and :1 for card 1. However I already have it set to card 0 but audio goes to card 1... BTW, you may also want to set your sound card in /etc/make.conf. -- I didn't know Gentoo changed the way that is done. Thanks. I've added it. It did not cause any changes in what gets built though. Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xine - no sound on DVDs - solved (sort of)
On 17:34 Tue 18 Sep , Mark Knecht wrote: I don't see anything in /etc/modules.d/alsa that defines the second card as default. Does anyone know how Alsa does that? I think you need alsa support through modules for this but I am not sure. First card is default one. To figure out index of your sound cards do this: $ cat /proc/asound/modules 0 cx88_alsa 1 snd_via82x 2 snd_mpu401 Now write this to /etc/modprobe.d/sound: options snd_via82xx index=0 options snd_mpu401 index=1 options cx88_alsa index=2 Card with index zero will be default. Then run: # update-modules After next boot, order of your sound cards should be ok. Note: I have this problem without any HW or SW changes. I don't know what triger this. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xine - no sound on DVDs - solved (sort of)
On 9/19/07, Miroslav Puda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17:34 Tue 18 Sep , Mark Knecht wrote: I don't see anything in /etc/modules.d/alsa that defines the second card as default. Does anyone know how Alsa does that? I think you need alsa support through modules for this but I am not sure. First card is default one. To figure out index of your sound cards do this: $ cat /proc/asound/modules 0 cx88_alsa 1 snd_via82x 2 snd_mpu401 Now write this to /etc/modprobe.d/sound: options snd_via82xx index=0 options snd_mpu401 index=1 options cx88_alsa index=2 Card with index zero will be default. Then run: # update-modules After next boot, order of your sound cards should be ok. Note: I have this problem without any HW or SW changes. I don't know what triger this. Hi Miroslav, Yes, I think I already have all that set up correctly. See the following info: dragonfly ~ # cat /proc/asound/modules 0 snd_intel8x0 1 snd_usb_audio dragonfly ~ # cat /etc/modules.d/alsa | grep options options snd-intel8x0 index=0 options snd-usb-audio index=1 options snd cards_limit=2 dragonfly ~ # cat /etc/modprobe.conf | grep options options snd-intel8x0 index=0 options snd-usb-audio index=1 options snd cards_limit=2 dragonfly ~ # The Intel HDA card is default. The USB device is an external USB to Optical spdif converter that runs to the external home theater receiver. All audio applications EXCEPT xine use the internal Intel card. ONLY xine is using the external USB device. (Card 1 instead of Card 0) Keep in mind that one my Gentoo-based AMD64 machine I have two audio cards as shown here and xine is working fine. Audio goes to card 0 exactly as it should. It gets mixed into the HDSP later but I can tell that xine audio is going through the 8X0 driver as it responds to the Gnome volume control and shows p on the correct input in hdspmixer. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/asound/modules 0 snd_intel8x0 1 snd_hdsp [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ Note that you might want to add the options snd cards_limit=3 to your config file. Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] xine - no sound on DVDs - solved (sort of)
On Wednesday 19 September 2007, Mark Knecht wrote: On 9/19/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you played around with alsaconf and alsactl? Also, you should make sure that there is no old asound.conf or ~/.asoundrc left in your system. I haven't. Not totally sure how I'd change anything by doing that. Both cards work with other apps. It's just xine that hard routing the audio to the second card, at least as far as I've seen so far. gmplayer routes DVD audio to the first card correctly. Just an idea. I am not sure why your xine is behaving like this . . . If two cards are registered I would expect that xine will give you an option to choose between the two. I think it does in the preferences area. It uses the Alsa language that only Alsa developers totally get but seems to end in :0 for card 0 and :1 for card 1. However I already have it set to card 0 but audio goes to card 1... I'm flummoxed. It wouldn't be a udev rule that you have forgotten about . . . but then this would not just affect xine. BTW, you may also want to set your sound card in /etc/make.conf. I didn't know Gentoo changed the way that is done. Thanks. I've added it. It did not cause any changes in what gets built though. With regards to your flags, I'd add ffmpeg. It installs the libavcodec for enc/decoding a multitude of video and audio data types. Good luck. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
