I have a strange sound problem on an f11 box -
I can play a .wav sound file just fine with aplay on the CLI. But if I try to play the file with Dragon Player or try to set Kmail to play the sound as an incoming mail alert then I get only the first half second or so of the sound. So maybe pulse is dying as it starts to play the file.
I have tried the usual fix of adding tsched=0 to the default.pa file in /etc/pulse but that does not fix this problem.
Any suggestions or pointers?
Thanks
Mike Cloaked wrote:
I have a strange sound problem on an f11 box -
I can play a .wav sound file just fine with aplay on the CLI. But if I try to play the file with Dragon Player or try to set Kmail to play the sound as an incoming mail alert then I get only the first half second or so of the sound. So maybe pulse is dying as it starts to play the file.
I gave up trying to fix the original problem but set the command to use paplay to play the .wav file from kmail - which does work.
Would be nice if the residual pulseaudio problems were fixed...
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 01:21:41PM -0800, Mike Cloaked wrote:
Mike Cloaked wrote:
I have a strange sound problem on an f11 box -
I can play a .wav sound file just fine with aplay on the CLI. But if I try to play the file with Dragon Player or try to set Kmail to play the sound as an incoming mail alert then I get only the first half second or so of the sound. So maybe pulse is dying as it starts to play the file.
I gave up trying to fix the original problem but set the command to use paplay to play the .wav file from kmail - which does work.
Would be nice if the residual pulseaudio problems were fixed...
I wouldn't necessarily blame PulseAudio in this case. If paplay works, then your server's responding and processing fine. It could be the way that Dragon Player and/or Kmail are dealing with audio that are the problem.
I usually first try to use a standard utility (paplay should be fine, or Totem which keeps up with PulseAudio generally) first. If that works, I create a brand new user account to test whether my configs are at fault with the different app I'm using. If that doesn't work, the app may be at fault. If it does, the blame probably lies in my user configuration.
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On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Paul W. Frields [via Fedora Users] wrote:
I wouldn't necessarily blame PulseAudio in this case. If paplay works, then your server's responding and processing fine. It could be the way that Dragon Player and/or Kmail are dealing with audio that are the problem.
I usually first try to use a standard utility (paplay should be fine, or Totem which keeps up with PulseAudio generally) first. If that works, I create a brand new user account to test whether my configs are at fault with the different app I'm using. If that doesn't work, the app may be at fault. If it does, the blame probably lies in my user configuration.
Well this was in fact a brand new user in this existing f11 system - the desktop is gnome but was setting up kmail for special reasons - perhaps kmail itself has a problem with whichever the internal sound application is that it uses? Either way for the uninitiated this would be a perplexing issue to resolve. There have been ongoing (though slowly reducing) pulseaudio issues - and I have not tried the same in an f12 box but that would probably be worth testing.
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