| Sound strangeness |
| Posted by bleader -- Sunday 08th of March 2009 18:31:03 PM |
| A few "tags" if I can call them like this so google index help people with this kind of trouble finding this post: alsa raw decode no sound fix asound.state iec958 -- I don't use it very often on my main computer, but sometimes, to watch DVD when I have trouble with mplayer crashing, or want to use the menu, I use XBMC. As my sound system is able to decode AC3 and DTS sound stream, I switch XBMC to raw output so the sound system will decode the stream itself. The main problem is that XBMC isn't stable at all here, and it does crash most of the time when playing around with DVD (which I should try to remember for next time, no use in trying something that won't work anyway). The main problem here, is that XBMC does change something in my ALSA settings and when it crashes, I end up with no sound because music, online videos and such are not in these formats, and should be encoded before being sent to the sound system... It seems that these settings are NOT all possible to change using the tools to configure your sound card, and it then become impossible to get sound except if I can overwrite alsa's sound states with a backup that I do have at hand... The main point of this post is for myself to have a place to find out where this file is on ubuntu: /var/lib/alsa/asound.state I always end up searching for .conf files, or *alsa* and so on and spend half an hour pulling my hairs out searching "how did I fix this last time it happened?" And maybe this can be handy to someone getting in the same kind of troubles as me. |
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