Re: [xine-devel] ALSA audio output broken in CVS xine-lib

[James Courtier-D. <Ja...@su...>]

Miguel Freitas wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 20:03, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> 
>>All these problems are solved by changing a config setting.
>>From
>>audio.alsa_front_device:default
>>to
>>audio.alsa_front_device:front
>>
>>The reason is that alsa 0.9.6 has bugs in it, that cause the default one 
>>to fail.
> 
> 
> that doesn't sound right, i'm not using alsa 0.9.6 but rather 0.9.4.
> why the alsa "default" behaviour would change if i haven't changed my
> alsa libs at all?

in audio_alsa_out, I started using an api call to alsa-lib that I have 
not used previously. It is that new api call that is not acting as I had 
expected it it. I think the bug/issue with the api call has in fact been 
there for all version of alsa-lib, but we just never saw it before.

>  
> 
>>It will be fixed in tuture versions of alsa, but setting it to "front" 
>>works.
>>I have adjusted the cvs to make "front" the default.
> 
> 
> i'm afraid i might not be able to test your very latest changes to the
> "old method" (i guess the audio receiver i used won't be available
> anymore). i hope everything is working fine again...
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Miguel
> 
> 

The audio_alsa_out is back to using the old alsa-lib api calls, with one 
minor modification, so all should be well in the world again. :-)

Cheers
James