From: Ken A. <arr...@ra...> - 2001-11-25 18:34:10
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On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Miguel Freitas wrote: > >-- Sound problem: sound sounds staticky, especially speech. I "fixed" > >this in 0.9.5 by setting audio_force_rate:24000; it's worse at higher > >rates and isn't noticeable at 24000. This is really just a workaround > >though-- *something's* wrong, though I don't know if it's my soundcard, > >Alsa, or Xine. > I would say this is probably a card/alsa driver issue. Maybe you should > try oss or alsa 0.9. Alsa 0.9 doesn't work on my sound card, and nobody on the Alsa mailing lists has been able to help me. Alsa OSS emulation gives the same problem, though. I'm suspecting the card. > >-- Volume problem (which I've had before). The volume can't be > >changed. It turned out that I have this problem *only* under Alsa (5). > >Under OSS (even OSS emulation under Alsa), the volume does work. > This is documented on FAQ. It's up to the output driver (audio or video) > to tell the gui what it supports. I browsed xine audio_out to find which > ones support volume changing: Is there any reason why it can't work, or is it just unimplemented? It does work with the OSS emulation under Alsa. > >-- Subtitle problem (same as before). Multiple colored subtitles in > >particular look really bad, like one of the colors is wrong by a pixel > >or two. This happens under Xv, but not under XShm. (My card is a > >Matrox G400, under XFree86 4.0.3.) > know issue that can't be fixed in the current architecture. The Xv > driver receive images (blended with subtitles) on YUV format where there > are 1 U and 1 V for each 4 Y's. In short: near pixels must have the same > "color" (U and V) but can differ on brightness. Thanks, it's the first I've heard of the explanation for this. So if yellow subtitles seem to have extra white on one side, that's because it's using the color from the black border but the brightness from the yellow? |