I completely agree with Konstantin Khomoutov. All the apps like web
browsers and vlc are able to use dmix without any noticeable loss of
sound quality. Also, vlc with dmix for some reason still uses less CPU
than mpd without dmix.
With firefox there's another problem: when a video (html5 or
Yury Bulka schrieb am Monday, den 17. December 2012:
I completely agree with Konstantin Khomoutov. All the apps like web
browsers and vlc are able to use dmix without any noticeable loss of
sound quality. Also, vlc with dmix for some reason still uses less CPU
than mpd without dmix.
With
On 2012/12/17 11:42, Yury Bulka yurk...@gmail.com wrote:
I completely agree with Konstantin Khomoutov. All the apps like web
browsers and vlc are able to use dmix without any noticeable loss of
sound quality.
That depends on your quality requirements. dmix defaults to 48 kHz
and 16 bit. Most
I did not measure if dmix really eats up CPU, but I'm more concerned
with this problem: MPD, being a daemon is usually ordered to play some
playlist or stream in the background. Now I suddenly want to, say, watch
a youtube video. Now what? With the current setup my attempt will fail,
I then need
On 2010/04/23 05:27, Delirium delir...@hackish.org wrote:
I had a different problem with this default setup. My audio worked
fine, but MPD had a broken volume knob.
The problem appears to be this pair of lines:
device hw:0,0
mixer_control PCM
On my card, hw:0,0 isn't the
Excerpts from Max Kellermann's message of Fri Apr 23 02:52:13 -0400 2010:
On my card, hw:0,0 isn't the PCM channel, so this results in mpd
fiddling a different volume knob than the one it's playing through.
Commenting these lines back out, or replacing hw:0,0 with
default, made it work.
I had a different problem with this default setup. My audio worked fine,
but MPD had a broken volume knob.
The problem appears to be this pair of lines:
device hw:0,0
mixer_control PCM
On my card, hw:0,0 isn't the PCM channel, so this results in mpd
fiddling a different
On 2010/02/06 01:13, Lutz Herting webmas...@phatsonic.de wrote:
Are these optional lines included in the MPD config by default for a good
reason?
Otherwise it may be a good idea to comment them by default, since they seem
to produce a serious problem for some users.
The problems with
Max Kellermann schrieb:
The problems with enabling dmix (very bad sound quality, high CPU
usage, random crashes due to ALSA bugs) usually outweigh the problems
of two applications accessing the same hardware device.
In the meantime I've read some more and learned that MPD falls back to
using
Package: mpd
Version: 0.15.8-1+b1
Severity: important
Tags: patch
I'm new to Debian and this is my first bug report, so tell me if something is
wrong or missing. ;)
After trying out MPD for the first time everything worked great, but then I
realized that other apps stopped playing sound (I
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