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2013-12-14, 21:31
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Cannot see anything in the logs. Despite your analog device only has one samplerate, 48khz.
and it's DISPLAY=:0 glxinfo |grep -i interop
Edit: Not sure, what you mean with clean. If you use a heaphone jack, better use the onboard plug. Btw. this Analog Sound issue is not related in any form to that howto.
Edit2: Make sure to disable eventually interfering Microphone ports.
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2013-12-15, 13:34
(This post was last modified: 2013-12-15, 13:34 by alcyone4169.)
I had to switch off the "auto-mute mode" in the alsamixer to get rid of the sound drops.
No everything is working very well.
Thanks a lot for the idea with the "interfering ports" and for this very good howto!
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just wanted to report that with 3.13.RC3, wsnipex test ppa; and fernetmenta, my mpegs no longer crash, YAY!!!!
/Radeon 4550
/hadn't checked in a while so don't know what fixed it
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The upstart script I posted in this howto has a big problem.
Upstart does not read /etc/security/limits.conf and also limit nice -1 -1 it ignores cause of the way we start xbmc.
The simplest solution I have found for now, is using slim login manager.
If someone else has a better idea, please state.
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Yeah - if my cpu temp would drop below 0 degrees ...
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Nice - but still curious, as normally AC3 and DTS are really comfortable formats, that every milk bottle can play. Make sure to adjust the init script, that will care for Underruns.
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2013-12-16, 14:17
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Here is a small recepice for debian. Over the week-end everything needed has been added. Its quite easys to get a working config on debian:
1) Install xserver-xorg-core from sid (1.14.5-1)
2) Install open source radeon driver from sid (7.2.0)
3) install mesa source from experimental (10.0.0.0-1)
4) Apply the following patch to enable gallium3d for mesa from bug <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=656719> : <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=220;filename=mesa_9.2.2-1.1.debdiff;att=1;bug=656719>
5) rebuild from source
6) take the 3.13.-rc4 kernel code and upgrade you favorite kernel
7) get xbmc source from fernetmenta git tree
8) configure with ./configure --enable-external-libraries --disable-external-ffmpeg --disable-vaapi --disable-crystalhd --enable-pulse. the disable-external-ffmpeg is needed for any ffmpeg version later than 2.1 (I opened a bug already but no fix yet. 2.0.2 is ok)
EDITED: Note I use pulse because I still use analog audio amplifier and need to downmux anyway. If you want to use passtrough or ActiveAE, do not enable pulse.
EDITED 2: Now the deb-multimedia package should work out of the box as the bug that was causing XBMC to misbehave with ffmpeg 2.1.1. has been fixed in ffmpeg git and deb-multimedia packages.
Enjoy
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don't tell people to enable pulse when we always advise against that.
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2013-12-16, 14:56
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Wsnipex is fully right here. We don't have a pulseaudio sink in xbmc yet. So choosing pulse here will a) disable ActiveAE b) disable passthrough completely. Futerhmore the pulse code was not tested nor futher developed (despite some song changing bugs I fixed 6 months ago).
Edit: hacks with pavucontrol I don't consider as sane workarounds.
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