On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 09:23 +0100, Richard Elen wrote:From: Mark Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]OT - it would be helpful if your mailer script didn't automatically quote peoples email addresses when replying - it makes it so much easier for spam email harvesters......
Apologies - that's the setup at work. There, I'm behind a firewall and can only use certain things. I can edit content manually (and from now will do), by cutting and pasting.
For recent softsqueeze versions there is no transcoding it acts like an SB2 and decodes the FLAC directly on the local machine, which further points to a transcoding issue.
That's all happening correctly, and was before.
What comes out of the analogue/headphone outputs of the SB1?
I'll never know, now. At the moment it is a rather lower-quality version of what comes out digitally :)
Can you switch the fancy DSP off, and just use the external DAC?Yes, I did this before the problem went away - I just set the mode to stereo :) - and I got identical outputs from L and R. This is the only combination that could have given me a signal from CF only in Trifield mode, so it's what I expected, but I /did/ want to check that half my system hadn't gone off or something silly. I also tried a different (2-ch) DAC altogether, same result. I also tried putting other stereo S/PDIF sources into the same input and they came out in stereo, so it was definitely a problem in the SS chain. Now everything's in stereo.
There have been some comments about SS 6.x.x being unsupported on RH7.2 due to a broken perl build. I don't know if this could
be related, but it's probably unlikely.
Would like to know more about this. I /do/ have a problem with starting SS at boot, but that is not perl-related. I'm glad I didn't know about this rumour earlier, I wouldn't have tried this version. I /am/ getting the XML::Parser error referred to in Michael Herger's posts, which /is/ perl-related, but this seems to be innocuous.
I'm on flac 1.1.0.FLAC decoder version
And so am I.
Another interesting piece of data would be to turn the d_source debug option on and then try to play a FLAC file. You'll see an entry in the log looking something like:
2005-04-06 22:04:13.0769 command: [flac] -dcs --force-raw-format --endian=little --sign=signed --skip=$START$ --until=$END$ -- $FILE$
This will confirm that the correct transcoding is happening.
This is pretty much the sort of entry I'm seeing. Hardly surprising as it now works.
I've often found that problems that are fixed by apparently unrelated changes often come back - usually when you least want them to.
Absolutely! Some other things have suddenly started to work, too, notably Live365 now logs in to my VIP account as it should - I /never/ had that work on this machine before, even with 5.4.x.
Thanks for all your help on this, anyway. If it recurs, as it surely will, I'll let you know after having checked the logs as you suggest.
--Richard E
"By Jove, that /is/ odd!" - Sir Henry Jowls, 4th Tower of Inverness
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