On Thursday 26 January 2006 07:21, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 1/24/06, Martins Steinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I emerged amarok, great gui to manage collection, but sound output is
> > bumpy with xine engine. gstreamer apears not to work at all. I tried to
> > tweak settings and xine config with no luck. However, playing adio
> > directly in xine output is clear.
> > What is your expierence, any sugestion where to look.
>
> My experience is that the xine engine is _by far_ the best sounding
> engine available in amarok.
>
> It might be interesting to diff
> ~/.kde3.5/share/apps/amarok/xine-config with ~/.xine/config,
> particularly for the alsa devices in use. Actually, I think you can
> just copy the ~/.xine/config to the amarok directory to make sure you
> are using the same xine configuration for both.
>
> > i have alsa on
> > 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> > VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
>
> The exact model of the controller chip might be useful here. From the
> .confs in /usr/share/alsa/cards, I gather that the 8233 and 8237 do
> hardware mixing, while the 8233A does not, and enables dmix/dsnoop by
> default.
>
> If you have the 8233 or 8237, I might try forcing the use of dmix by
> default in your ~/.asoundrc to see if it makes a difference:
>
> pcm.!default {
> type plug
> slave.pcm "dmixer"
> }
> pcm.dmixer {
> type dmix
> ipc_key 1024
> slave {
> pcm "hw:0,0"
> period_time 0
> period_size 1024
> buffer_size 4096
> rate 44100
> }
> bindings {
> 0 0
> 1 1
> }
> }
> ctl.dmixer {
> type hw
> card 0
> }
>
> -RichardThanks, great to know I was wasting time with wrong xine config file :) however, just before your message i recompiled amarok without gstreamer suport and problem has gone, hope forever cause I'd like to keep this app. martins -- Linux 2.6.15-ck2 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ 09:53:52 up 2:41, 5 users, load average: 1.19, 1.21, 1.18
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