Thanks for the response. I was about to do swap with an extra notebook hard drive and do a test reinstall without alsa. I will still do it to see if I still have problems. The alsa driver I got *is* version 0.9.3. Basically I used a stock Shrike install, with alsa, xine (and its dependencies), and xmms-plugin coming from freshrpms.net. Also I might have spoke too soon regarding playing mpg's. Since my original post, I had installed gxine on my original install. I played an mpg file, paused, went to the kitchen, came back, and resumed playback. Video was still on pause, sound continued, and gxine froze. Tried this a second time (without actually going to the kitchen <g>), and then video continued, but sound didn't. Gxine still froze. Very weird. I'll try to do more "trying things out" with different programs and combinations when I can. Thanks again. BP --- Florin Andrei <florin@xxxxxxx> wrote: > There are known issues when playing DVDs with recent > xine versions and with the xmms-alsa plugin on an > ALSA-enabled system. > From what you've said, it looks like the actual > problem with xine is when handling non-stereo sound > tracks (e.g. Dolby 5.1 or Dolby Surround), which is > consistent with some issues that i've seen. > > I'm not entirely sure whether it's a problem with > xine itself, with ALSA itself or a combination. > I've seen xine playing just fine on non-ALSA > systems, i've seen other media players (Ogle) > playing just fine on ALSA. > Also, the old "stable" non-development xine version > (0.9.13) seems to have no issues whatsoever. > But, XMMS with ALSA plugin has issues, while with > OSS plugin plays fine. > > The weird thing is, it happens only on some systems > (mine's included). > Looks like it's all fine and dandy for the majority > of users. That's kinda annoying. > > The best thing you can do is to report the issue on > the xine-users and alsa-users mailing lists, > providing as many of these details as you can: > - xine version, and where did you get it from > - ALSA version and where did you get it from > - kernel and distribution version > - exactly what kind of media plays fine, and what > kind doesn't, and what are the errors (pretty much > what you already did in your message here, but add > more scenarios and copy/paste the console messages); > try as many different kinds of media as you can: > DVD, SVCD, DivX, Windows Media, QuickTime, Real > Media, MP3, anything that's supported by xine; if you > get a chance to install the Gxine interface (the > alternative GUI to xine) try and play the web TV and > radio broadcast stations too, to see how Web > streaming works. If you could test the Mozilla > plugin too, that would be great. > - previous item, repeated for a different sound > driver (-A oss) > - try and see if other ALSA-enabled apps are having > issues: XMMS with OSS plugin and with ALSA plugin, > alsaplayer, anything else (games?) > - hardware details about your system (especially > sound card info) > > If you got your packages from freshrpms.net, try and > get the xmms-alsa plugin, and maybe alsaplayer too, > and see what happens. > > That would be a big help to fix this annoying bug. > Thank you. > > I'll post a similar message to the aforementioned > mailing lists later on today, provided that i'll run > into similar issues with the most recent ALSA > drivers (i had these problems with 0.9.2, i just > upgraded to 0.9.3 but didn't tested yet). > > -- > Florin Andrei > > "When ideas fail, words come in very handy." - > Goethe ===== Blaise Pascal pascal256@xxxxxxxxx Please avoid sending me Word, Excel or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com
