[gentoo-ppc-user] Questions about xine video & KDE audio

[Carl Hudkins]

Hi!

 First of all, thanks to those folks who answered my questions about hard 
drives & DMA; the new drive is in place and working perfectly.  :)

 Now since the basic system is up and running, it's time to play!  I have 
enabled ALSA in the kernel (2.6 dev-sources), with OSS emulation and all 
options under it, and sound mostly works.  For example, I can hear DVD 
audio in xine, and the "Test Sound" feature in KDE Control Center works 
most of the time -- but sometimes it stops and I have to play with the 
mute controls in Kmix to get it back.  However, none of the event sounds 
will play from within KDE, but will play using ogg123.

 Sound with aRts through ALSA sounds horrible -- too loud and full of 
static.  If I tell KDE to use OSS instead (even though it's just ALSA 
emulating OSS), it sounds normal.  Sound from ogg123 through aRts sounds 
nasty too, so it seems aRts uses the direct ALSA there.  Sound from 
ogg123 through ALSA plays just fine.

 I am on a 450MHz dual G3 here (blue & white, made in August 1999).  Does 
anyone know what's going on with the sound?

 Next, anyone using xine on this kind of system?  I'm wondering if the 
video quality can be improved.  Currently it has lots of little flecks in 
it, almost like static you'd get by watching TV with a poor signal.  I'm 
going to fool around with this more, changing things like X color depth 
and such, because I really haven't done much investigating of video yet; 
I'm just trying to see if someone out there has a similar system that 
works well.

Thanks!

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