Re: [gentoo-user] xine - no sound on DVDs - solved (sort of)

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Wednesday 19 September 2007, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 9/19/07, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Have you played around with alsaconf and alsactl?  Also, you should make
> > sure that there is no old asound.conf or ~/.asoundrc left in your system.
>
> I haven't. Not totally sure how I'd change anything by doing that.
> Both cards work with other apps. It's just xine that hard routing the
> audio to the second card, at least as far as I've seen so far.
> gmplayer routes DVD audio to the first card correctly.

Just an idea.  I am not sure why your xine is behaving like this . . .

> > If two
> > cards are registered I would expect that xine will give you an option to
> > choose between the two.
>
> I think it does in the preferences area. It uses the Alsa language
> that only Alsa developers totally get but seems to end in :0 for card
> 0 and :1 for card 1. However I already have it set to card 0 but audio
> goes to card 1...

I'm flummoxed.  It wouldn't be a udev rule that you have forgotten about . . . 
but then this would not just affect xine.

> > BTW, you may also want to set your sound card in /etc/make.conf.
>
> I didn't know Gentoo changed the way that is done. Thanks. I've added
> it. It did not cause any changes in what gets built though.

With regards to your flags, I'd add ffmpeg.  It installs the libavcodec for 
enc/decoding a multitude of video and audio data types.

Good luck.
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Regards,
Mick

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