Nikolaus Filus wrote: > Hello, > > recently I switched to pulseaudio on ubuntu feisty. I got almost everything > working (again) except 2 things: > > 1. xine is working great, but if I play an AC3 5.1 file, I hear only 2 of five > channels (1 front and 1 silent back channel). For alsa xine has a downmix > option, but it doesn't work for pulse output. > Should that be corrected in xine's pulse output plugin or is there a builtin > channel downmix in pulseaudio? Mplayer does it as expected, but I couldn't > figure out, where is it done. > It all depends on what backends you use. The basic problem is probably that xine is not giving you the same channels you have specified in your sink. I would suggest using pacmd and checking the channel maps while xine is playing. > > 2. mplayer works fine, but gmplayer freezes after few played samples and waits > for some event. I get a lot of > futex(0x8bb0af0, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 0 > in strace output. > Sometimes there is a window showing up: "AO: [pulse] Failed to get sink input > info: Timeout" > No idea. I've only tested mplayer directly. Have you checked that it doesn't call mplayer with some odd parameters? Rgds -- Pierre Ossman OpenSource-based Thin Client Technology System Developer Telephone: +46-13-21 46 00 Cendio AB Web: http://www.cendio.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 251 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20070511/83895db6/attachment.pgp>
