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
}
-Richard
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