On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:54:56PM +0200, Penguin Lover David Harel squawked: > >Okay, a few more questions: > > 1) Is that behavior reproducible? > > a) If you reboot, does the sound play normally? > > > Yep, but I don't have to reboot, I killed the artswrapper the other time > (it logged me out) and it was enough to restore audio capabilities. > > > b) After the reboot, if you play that same wma file again, does it > > break sound still? > > > Yes, Can't play it at all. > > > 2) Do you run any sound daemons? (ESD, aRts, etc.) > > > artsd > > > 3) By any software tool, did you include aplay? If not, find some > > wav file, and run it through aplay. If you don't have wav files > > handy, do > > sox <soundfile> -t wav - | aplay > > use some <soundfile> that is known to be good, not the wma file > > the causes problem. If you don't have sox, emerge it. > > > Ok, did that, the speed was still doubled. >
Okay, hum. When you play that wma file with mplayer, what does mplayer say about the file? In particular, I am looking for something that looks like: Playing music/phd1.mp3. Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes) Audio file detected. ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 96.0 kbit/6.80% (ratio: 12000->176400) Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3) ========================================================================== Checking audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 44100Hz/2ch/s16le... AF_pre: 44100Hz/2ch/s16le AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bps) Building audio filter chain for 44100Hz/2ch/s16le -> 44100Hz/2ch/s16le... Which shows the audio decoder used, the audio sampling rate, number of channels, the output driver, etc. W -- If stretching were wealth, the cat would be rich. ~African Proverb Sortir en Pantoufles: up 66 days, 11:23 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list