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From: Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sound plays in double speed.
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:08:17
Message-Id: 20060117190433.GA15105@princeton.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Sound plays in double speed. by David Harel
1 On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:54:56PM +0200, Penguin Lover David Harel squawked:
2 > >Okay, a few more questions:
3 > > 1) Is that behavior reproducible?
4 > > a) If you reboot, does the sound play normally?
5 > >
6 > Yep, but I don't have to reboot, I killed the artswrapper the other time
7 > (it logged me out) and it was enough to restore audio capabilities.
8 >
9 > > b) After the reboot, if you play that same wma file again, does it
10 > > break sound still?
11 > >
12 > Yes, Can't play it at all.
13 >
14 > > 2) Do you run any sound daemons? (ESD, aRts, etc.)
15 > >
16 > artsd
17 >
18 > > 3) By any software tool, did you include aplay? If not, find some
19 > > wav file, and run it through aplay. If you don't have wav files
20 > > handy, do
21 > > sox <soundfile> -t wav - | aplay
22 > > use some <soundfile> that is known to be good, not the wma file
23 > > the causes problem. If you don't have sox, emerge it.
24 > >
25 > Ok, did that, the speed was still doubled.
26 >
27
28 Okay, hum. When you play that wma file with mplayer, what does mplayer
29 say about the file? In particular, I am looking for something that
30 looks like:
31
32 Playing music/phd1.mp3.
33 Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) Audio file detected.
34 ==========================================================================
35 Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
36 AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 96.0 kbit/6.80% (ratio: 12000->176400)
37 Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
38 ==========================================================================
39 Checking audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 44100Hz/2ch/s16le...
40 AF_pre: 44100Hz/2ch/s16le
41 AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bps)
42 Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 44100Hz/2ch/s16le...
43
44 Which shows the audio decoder used, the audio sampling rate, number of
45 channels, the output driver, etc.
46
47 W
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