David King wrote: > I keep losing the sound on my Ubuntu 8.04.1 (64-bit) installation. I can > play video and audio files okay, but then a bit later I cannot get any > sound at all. The only clue is that if I try to open a video file in > Xine, it says that the audio is device is unavailable as another program > is using it. One time recently when this happened, I close the image > viewer which was viewing a jpg image, and then the sound returned (which > is bizzare as no sound is needed to view a photo). The image viewer is > not currently running, and nothing that uses audio is running (like > Rhythmbox), although I have visited some flash-based sites in Firefox. > > Any ideas what could cause this and how to prevent the loss of sound in > future? > > David King > > > I have similar issues with 8.10, one solution i found was to ensure you are using alsa, not the default sound system, however
sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/* will tell you what applications are using sound at present i can listen to audio with either vlc or amarok but it does keep stopping, Another idea I found pointed to pulseaudio, but i suspect the other answer which points to firefox and flash would also be an issue. Perhaps this will be fixed in 9.04, it should be. seems to be a combination of issues, the problem i am having seems to be it will play then stop, then start up again, almost like its filling a cache with data, playing then stopping while it fills up again, so it can carry on playing (if that makes any sense to anyone). Paul -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Support Open and ISO standard file formats e.g ISO 26300 odt http://www.oasis-open.org/home/index.php Next Linux User Group meet : Feb 7th : 3pm (TBC), Shoreline Cafe Paignton -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
