On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 17:59 +0000, Paul Sutton wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Farran Lee wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 17:41 +0000, Paul Sutton wrote: > > > > Paul Sutton wrote: > >>>> Hi > >>>> > >>>> I am having issues with sound on ubuntu 8.10 > >>>> > >>>> having tried both pulse audio and alsa, I am still having a similar > >>>> issue > >>>> > >>>> my volume is low, despite the speaker being turned up and the vlc and > >>>> panel control being turned up, It plays at a reasonable volume, or at a > >>>> level I would expect with the speaker turned down to 1/2 or less of its > >>>> current level. > >>>> > >>>> Not sure where to start looking > >>>> > >>>> Paul > > > > Looks like i have fixed it, pcm volume was down, (what ever pcm is) > > > > It still has a tendancy to cut out, for a few seconds, not sure why, > > it seems like some sort of buffer issue, but so when watching a video i > > miss dialog for a few seconds. > > > > Paul > > > >> > > > yeah, mine does that every so often, but not with pcm: the master volume > > just resets itself to about 65% volume. :\ oh well hehe not so bad I > > guess, just annoying > > =================================== > > Farran Lee > > I'm only 16 :P > > > yeah its annoying as i looked at the pcm settting, and didn't really > have an explanation as to what that actually stood for, or meant so kind > of dis-missed it, > > as for the cutting out i just put up with it, as its not application > specific. > > Paul
PCM stands for Pulse Code Modulation, very detailed wiki article here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCM I usually consider it as the wav out. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
