Potentially some Xine Engine bugs

[Colin Guthrie]

Greg Meyer wrote:
>> The only officially supported Engine in Cooker is Xine, and I've been
>> trying to make it work with my USB Audio sound card (the 2nd device).
>>
> I use a similar setup on Arch linux and do not experience the problem, 
> although, I have found that kernels with the ck patchset disrupt my usb audio 
> device somehow and locks it.  Perhaps it could be a kernel/driver problem, 
> although I am unfamiliar with the current patchset that mandriva applies to 
> its kernel.  See this alsa bug if you think it may be relevant
> 
> https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=1874

Well, we do have a whole load of kernel patches and flavours available. 
I'll try the multimedia kernels tomorrow and see if they provide any 
more joy.

We do use 2.6.17 but not sure off hand if it has the "ck patchset". I 
can take a look/ask tho'.

>> It plays one track fine and then it bails when moving to the next track
>> and generally *lots* of popups appear telling me that "Xine could not
>> initialize any audio output modules.".
> 
> I used to experience this on Mandriva 2005 with alsa when using dmix on my 
> AC97 soundcard.  This also used to happen when the script manager was open, 
> which somehow locked soundcards that could not do hardware mixing.  
> 
> Assuming you have a soundcard that cannot do hardware mixing, perhaps it has 
> something to do with xine's gapless playback, trying to start the new stream 
> before the old one is finished.

Yes perhaps it is that. I'll disable crossfade and try again (tomorrow 
as my speakers are at work!)

>> http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=24996
>> With the Amarok Xine output engine, and OSS audio, the drop down only
>> shows me my first card, despite /dev/dsp1 existing and working (tested
>> in mplayer).
>>
> I see this too, although I have three soundcards in this box.

So this is probably an upstream bug? Cool, not just me! :)

Thanks for your help. It did help :)

Col