Bug#351237: totem-xine: audio error playing a dvd

[Josselin Mouette]

Le samedi 26 août 2006 à 13:26 +0300, Fabian Fagerholm a écrit :
> On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 09:50 +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> > I shut down gnome-volume-control (pid 6057 above) and killed mixer_app
> > (pid 6004) and after that the sound worked in totem. I didn't have esd
> > running (GNOME menu Desktop->Preferences->Sound, Enable software sound
> > mixing (ESD) was off).
> 
> It turns out that maybe killing those processes was not what actually
> helped. I'm not sure, but I think totem simply started playing normally
> when I pressed the play button after the error dialog had popped up.
> 
> I can still reproduce the bug, though. What could I do to debug this?

This is probably related to ALSA. What sound card are you using (lspci)
and what driver are you using (grep snd /proc/modules) ? Is totem the
only application that fails to initialise sometimes?
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