[Alsa-user] broken bluetooth audio?

2014-02-14 Thread Malte Gell
Hello, I still have lots of hiccups when playing DVB or other stuff. First I thought pulseaudio is the source for trouble and I disabled it. But disabling pulseaudio did not help much, audio still drops out from time to time. It only happens when using my bluetooth headset from Jabra. With a wir

Re: [Alsa-user] bluetooth devices and /proc/asound/cards

2014-02-14 Thread Malte Gell
Am 14.02.2014 09:09, schrieb Clemens Ladisch: > Malte Gell wrote: >> Why is a bluetooth headset not listed in /proc/asound/cards? > > Because Bluetooth audio devices are not handled by an ALSA kernel > driver. BT audio is run by this libasound bluetooth library? Thus BT audi

[Alsa-user] bluetooth devices and /proc/asound/cards

2014-02-13 Thread Malte Gell
Why is a bluetooth headset not listed in /proc/asound/cards? USB devices like webcams do appear there, but why no bluetooth headphone? As a result mixers like KDE kmix do not show bluetooth devices either and you cannot change the volume of BT devices there. Why is this? Malte --

[Alsa-user] Chose output device on the fly

2014-02-11 Thread Malte Gell
Hello, is there a GUI tool to change output device for media player on the fly? For pulseaudio there is pavucontrol, this allows to map an output device to a media player on the fly, while playing stuff. Pulseaudio is not an option for me, it seems to be totally broken when it comes to bluetooth

[Alsa-user] change volume of bluetooth device

2014-02-11 Thread Malte Gell
Hello, I managed to get my Jabra Halo bluetooth headset working with ALSA on openSUSE 12.3. aplay -L says: btheadset Jabra BT Headset When I do mplayer -ao alsa:device=btheadset Wrong.mp3 I can enjoy the music. But, how do I change volume now? When I invoke amixer -D btheadset I only get

Re: [Alsa-user] How to set sample rate for webcam microphone

2012-01-25 Thread Malte Gell
Am 25.01.2012 17:27, schrieb Malte Gell: Maybe the device name of the usbmic has changed? These are the names arecord -l and -L give me: Karte 2: U0x46d0x825 [USB Device 0x46d:0x825], Gerät 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Sub-Geräte: 1/1 Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0 iec958:CARD=U0x46d0x825,DEV=0

[Alsa-user] How to set sample rate for webcam microphone

2012-01-25 Thread Malte Gell
Hello, I have already solved this issue once, but forgot how I did it After installing openSUSE 12.1 a problem occured again I once solved. When I use my Logitec webcam C270 my voice is by far too high with Skype. I also use pulseaudio. I have tried to use ~/.asoundrc with the following cont

Re: [Alsa-user] How to set fixed sample rate for input device?

2009-07-15 Thread Malte Gell
Malte Gell wrote > Hi there, > > regarding my other webcam microphone issue I now know where the problem > is... > > With this command I can record voice with my webcam just fine: > > arecord -vv -D hw:1,0 -c 1 -f S16_LE --rate=18000-v test.wav For future generations an

[Alsa-user] How to set fixed sample rate for input device?

2009-07-15 Thread Malte Gell
Hi there, regarding my other webcam microphone issue I now know where the problem is... With this command I can record voice with my webcam just fine: arecord -vv -D hw:1,0 -c 1 -f S16_LE --rate=18000-v test.wav But, I always have to specify the 18000 Hz sample rate. How or better asked where

Re: [Alsa-user] Asus Xonar D1, hardware mixer?

2009-07-15 Thread Malte Gell
Malte Gell wrote > Hello! > > I google all day long just to find out what C-Media chip the Asus Xonar D1 > uses... > > According to the project site, kernel 2.6.27 and ALSA 1.0.18 supports it. > But, what I am keen to know is whether this card supports hwmix which is >

[Alsa-user] Asus Xonar D1, hardware mixer?

2009-07-15 Thread Malte Gell
Hello! I google all day long just to find out what C-Media chip the Asus Xonar D1 uses... According to the project site, kernel 2.6.27 and ALSA 1.0.18 supports it. But, what I am keen to know is whether this card supports hwmix which is important to me to get fluid sound. Thanx Malte ---

Re: [Alsa-user] webcam microphone: sound like Mickey Mouse

2009-07-04 Thread Malte Gell
Malte Gell wrote > Hello, > > I have a Philips SPC 620 NC webcam and i have loaded the snd-usb-audio > module. But, when I record my voice, e.g. with Skype. The sound is played > back much to fast, so I sound like Mickey Mouse (or Donald Duck). > > What could cause this

[Alsa-user] webcam microphone: sound like Mickey Mouse

2009-07-02 Thread Malte Gell
Hello, I have a Philips SPC 620 NC webcam and i have loaded the snd-usb-audio module. But, when I record my voice, e.g. with Skype. The sound is played back much to fast, so I sound like Mickey Mouse (or Donald Duck). What could cause this behaviour? Thanx Malte running ALSA 1.0.18 and Kerne

Re: [Alsa-user] Known C-Media 8738 issues?

2009-06-25 Thread Malte Gell
Robert Hancock wrote > >> happening, so it's impossible to say. Is other audio software working? > > > > Yes, other stuff works. I can listen to Flash 10 plugin sound, Kaffeine, > > KDE system sound etc. Maybe just a Skype issue? > > Quite likely. It seems they abuse the ALSA API rather badly. F

Re: [Alsa-user] equalizer for ALSA?

2009-06-23 Thread Malte Gell
Sergei Steshenko wrote > On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:02:57 +0200 > > Malte Gell wrote: > > Hi there! > > > > Is there some equalizer application for ALSA? > ALSA is capable of using LADSPA plugins; there is an equalizer among > LADSPA plugins. Thanx for tha

Re: [Alsa-user] Known C-Media 8738 issues?

2009-06-23 Thread Malte Gell
Robert Hancock wrote > On 06/22/2009 01:38 AM, Malte Gell wrote: > > when I use Skype 2.0.0.72 on Linux I get an error: > > > > RtApiAlsa: callback thread error (RtApiAlsa: audio write error for device > > (C- Media CMI8738 (hw:CMI8738,0)): unknown error 405.) ...

Re: [Alsa-user] Known C-Media 8738 issues?

2009-06-22 Thread Malte Gell
Clemens Ladisch wrote > Malte Gell wrote: > > when I use Skype 2.0.0.72 on Linux I get an error: > > > > RtApiAlsa: callback thread error (RtApiAlsa: audio write error for device > > (C- Media CMI8738 (hw:CMI8738,0)): unknown error 405.) ... closing > > strea

[Alsa-user] Known C-Media 8738 issues?

2009-06-22 Thread Malte Gell
Hi there, when I use Skype 2.0.0.72 on Linux I get an error: RtApiAlsa: callback thread error (RtApiAlsa: audio write error for device (C- Media CMI8738 (hw:CMI8738,0)): unknown error 405.) ... closing stream. I did not have problems before when I use my good old Soundblaster Live! and so I won

[Alsa-user] equalizer for ALSA?

2009-06-22 Thread Malte Gell
Hi there! Is there some equalizer application for ALSA? I'm not talking about mixers, like amixer, kamixer and such, but a real qualizer to adjust frequencies. I know VLC media player has a builtin equalizer, but it would be nice to have a standalone equalizer to adjust sound generally. Thanx

Re: [Alsa-user] CMEDIA chip and buffer issues

2009-06-06 Thread Malte Gell
Malte Gell wrote > Hi there, > > when I run Skype I get "RtApiAlsa: overrun detected" when I try to make a > test call and then audio just hangs. > > Google told this is said to be a buffer issue, so what can I do now? > Increase buffers? What would I have to writ

[Alsa-user] CMEDIA chip and buffer issues

2009-06-06 Thread Malte Gell
Hi there, when I run Skype I get "RtApiAlsa: overrun detected" when I try to make a test call and then audio just hangs. Google told this is said to be a buffer issue, so what can I do now? Increase buffers? What would I have to write down in asoundrc? This is a Terratec card with CMEDIA 8738

[Alsa-user] increasing buffer size via asoundrc

2009-01-15 Thread Malte Gell
Hi there, to increase buffer size I created a ~/.asoundrc with the following content, my question is just, is this the right syntax? I have one card, a EMU10K1 based SB! Live PCI. Thanx! pcm.!default { type plug; slave { pcm "hw:0,0"; buffer_size 32768; period_size 2048 } } -

Re: [Alsa-user] (USB) webcam microphone does not work

2008-04-11 Thread Malte Gell
On Donnerstag, 10. April 2008, Dominique Michel wrote: > snd_usb_audio and snd_usb_lib are loaded, so the webcam's mic must > work. Maybe that it is a firmware problem. > > Otherwise, you have only the emu10k1 card in /etc/modprobe.d/sound. > It can be good to try to add the usb card. Done. Didn'

Re: [Alsa-user] (USB) webcam microphone does not work

2008-04-08 Thread Malte Gell
On Dienstag, 8. April 2008, Dominique Michel wrote: > What is your alsa configuration file? Can you post it here. It is > typically something like /etc/modules.d/asla To be sure I added now the following to /etc/modprobe.conf.local: options snd-usb-audio enable=1 vid=0471 pid=0333 index=1 alias

Re: [Alsa-user] (USB) webcam microphone does not work

2008-04-08 Thread Malte Gell
On Dienstag, 8. April 2008, Bill Unruh wrote: > On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Dominique Michel wrote: > > Le Mon, 7 Apr 2008 21:03:22 +0200, > > > > Malte Gell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > >> Doesn't work either... I think there must be a general issue with >

Re: [Alsa-user] (USB) webcam microphone does not work

2008-04-08 Thread Malte Gell
On Dienstag, 8. April 2008, Dominique Michel wrote: > What is your alsa configuration file? Can you post it here. It is > typically something like /etc/modules.d/asla You talk about the kernel module configuration for ALSA? This is what I found: /etc/modprobe.d/sound (openSUSE 10.3), content:

Re: [Alsa-user] (USB) webcam microphone does not work

2008-04-07 Thread Malte Gell
On Montag, 7. April 2008, Jasper wrote: > Using "default" makes it going through artsd in your case and that is > doing the rate-conversion. > > Using "hw" is more direct. So you could try it with "-f dat" as > parameter. arecord -f dat -D hw:1 test.wav Recording WAVE 'test.wav' : Signed 16 bit

Re: [Alsa-user] (USB) webcam microphone does not work

2008-04-07 Thread Malte Gell
On Montag, 7. April 2008, Jasper wrote: > Malte Gell gmx.de> writes: > > arecord -vv -D default:1 test.wav > > Hi, I think that should be: > arecord -vv -D hw:1 test.wav Does not work: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/tmp> arecord -vv -D hw:1 test.wav Recording WAVE 'test.wav&#x

Re: [Alsa-user] (USB) webcam microphone does not work

2008-04-07 Thread Malte Gell
Here is the output of arecord -l which may be helpful: List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices card 0: Live [SBLive! Value [CT4832]], device 0: emu10k1 [ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: Live [SBLive! Value [CT4832]], device 1: emu10k1 mi

[Alsa-user] (USB) webcam microphone does not work

2008-04-07 Thread Malte Gell
Hello, I have a Philips SPC620NC webcam, connected via USB and using the uvcvvideo driver. Video is fine, but I can't get the internal microphone working. I have the needed USB sound modules loaded and I checked (hopefully correctly) with alsamixer that nothing is muted. arecord -l lists the