On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 22:35 +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 09:25:44PM +0300, Oded Arbel wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure what you mean - are you talking about OSS vs. ALSA ? Fedore
> > Core 5 supports OSS using the OSS-ALSA emulation layer which works fine
> > for me. More then that - Fedora Core 5 supports dmix/dsnoop out of the
> > box, and works very well on all systems I installed it on (several
> > desktop and a couple of laptops, ranging from
> > brand-new-haven't-gotten-the-plastic-off-yet to
> > old-enough-that-I'm-not-sure-it-runs-windows-98). Funny though - dmix
> > works well on the OSS emulation layer, but for apps that directly
> > support ALSA there apparently supposed to be some extra configuration
> > which I haven't gotten down pat yet, so apps that do ALSA directly can't
> > share audio output while all apps that think they are using OSS work
> > flawlessly. funny.
>
> Yes, but VLC is not one of them. It does not work with ALSA emulating
> OSS. It has something to do with the card only having one sample rate
> (32k) and how it is set.
I don't believe the OSS emulation is ALSA is using 32KHz. I'm not sure
if its a fixed rate, but on my computer it seems to be using 48KHz
(which makes much more sense - sound cards work with either 44.1KHz or
48KHz).
I installed vlc on Fedora Core 5 - it came from the livna repository and
works flawlessly - the sound module was set up to "default", but
changing it to whatever value (arts, esd, oss, alsa, sdl) worked. I've
finally left it as "default" (not sure what is picks).
As mentioned before- upgrading RedHat/Fedora is not a recommended
practice, but if you had problems its quite possibly to recover from
that by making sure you have everything upgraded (i.e. - nothing left
over from the previous OS), and then re-run all the configuration
programs.
--
Oded
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Prince you walked over a very sharp cattle grid in an extremely heavy
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