On Wednesday 19 September 2007, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 9/19/07, Mick 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. -- Regards, Mick