Re: [PLUG] xine kills sound

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

Jeff Abrahamson wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 03:43:03PM -0500, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
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> > Sound works (ogg123, mpg123).  I run xine, xine's volume is set to
> > zero so I turn it up, it works.  But now mpg123 and ogg123 run silent,
> > no errors reported, just silent.  Xine still comes up with sound
> > volume set to zero, in gxine it's set to muted, but both work if I
> > turn up the volume in the (g)xine control.
> >    
>
> Wow, that was strange.  I happened upon a gnome sound control panel
> that is a mixer-like thing.  Something called PCM was set to zero.
> Turning up enabled mpg|ogg123 sound again.  Video sound was set to
> zero, turning that up made xine come up with non-zero volume.
>
> Now they all work again.  But how odd!
>  

Similar thing happened to me -- not quite sure it was xine that caused 
it -- but the symptom and the solution was the same with Debian-based 
Ubuntu.

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