defaults.pcm.dmix.rate In alsa.conf Causes Crashes

brando56894 · 2011-11-15 02:55:11

In another thread we narrowed it down that defaults.pcm.dmix.rate 48000 in alsa.conf causes XBMC to crash when it plays certain videos. If I comment out defaults.pcm.dmix.rate the videos play fine but I don't have any sound system wide. Any ideas on how to rectify this?

brebs · 2011-11-15 03:24:56

Are those "certain videos" encoded at 44.1khz?

Is it only XBMC that has a problem?

brando56894 · 2011-11-15 04:00:08

yes and yes.

Last edited by brando56894 (2011-11-15 06:06:49)

brando56894 · 2011-11-17 22:24:36

Can someone please help me with this? This is the second "one-shot" answer I've gotten with this issue. I'm willing to fix it myself, I just have absolutely no idea what to do.

defears · 2011-11-17 22:53:12

What happens if you just change it to 44100? Does it still play 48000 files then? Do you have libsamplerate installed? Did you install pulseaudio by accident?

brando56894 · 2011-11-17 22:58:51

If I change it to anything the crashes still happen, the only way they don't happen is if I comment that line out, but then I don't have any sound. Nothing for pulseaudio is installed, although it does complain about not being able to access pulseaudio.

20:06:35 T:139776137090816 M:5579362304  NOTICE: Creating audio device with codec id: 86017, channels: 2, sample rate: 44100, no pass-through
20:06:35 T:139776137090816 M:5578346496   ERROR: PulseAudio: Failed to connect context
20:06:35 T:139776137090816 M:5578346496   ERROR: PulseAudio: Failed to create context
20:06:35 T:139776145483520 M:5576638464  NOTICE:  fps: 23.976025, pwidth: 720, pheight: 400, dwidth: 720, dheight: 400

libsamplerate is installed:

 [bran@ra ~]$ query libsamplerate
libsamplerate 0.1.8-1

Last edited by brando56894 (2011-11-17 23:07:30)

defears · 2011-11-17 23:11:09

What do you have under system>system>audio output device?

brando56894 · 2011-11-17 23:14:31

I'm running KDE, but I have my internal sound card configured: HDA Intel (ALC889 Analog)

defears · 2011-11-17 23:18:43

That was for within xmbc.

brando56894 · 2011-11-17 23:20:20

Ok, it just says default

defears · 2011-11-17 23:31:40

Try each one. Mine says Default.alsa. With capital letters. But I'm also using pulseaudio. I know nothing of KDE's setup.

brando56894 · 2011-11-18 00:39:06

These are the available output devices: default, defaults, hdmi, custom, iec958

These are the ones that work but cause crashes: default, defaults

all the others produce "cannot find output device"

here is the relevant section from my guisettings.xml

    <audiooutput>
        <ac3passthrough>true</ac3passthrough>
        <audiodevice>default</audiodevice>
        <channellayout>0</channellayout>
        <customdevice></customdevice>
        <custompassthrough></custompassthrough>
        <dontnormalizelevels>true</dontnormalizelevels>
        <dtspassthrough>true</dtspassthrough>
        <mode>0</mode>
        <passthroughaac>false</passthroughaac>
        <passthroughdevice>iec958</passthroughdevice>
        <passthroughmp1>false</passthroughmp1>
        <passthroughmp2>false</passthroughmp2>
        <passthroughmp3>false</passthroughmp3>
    </audiooutput>

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