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-0000:00:1d.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
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