[linux-audio-user] Re: No sound from streaming audio + ALSA

[Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao]

Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao wrote on Dec, 12:
> I recently switched from OSS to ALSA and no sound comes from streaming 
> audio.  CD playing with xmms or cdplay works correctly. Streaming audio with 
> xmms or gxine produces no sound. I can see that the server was contacted and 
> the player is reproducing the stream, but only a hissing sound comes from 
> the loudspeakers. I ruled out mixer problems because CD playing produces 
> sound.

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I'm more puzzled now: I traced aplay, which produces sound, and gxine, which 
doesn't produce sound. aplay plays a wav file, and gxine a rtsp:// stream. I 
can see that both open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p, and repeatedly ioctl the file 
descriptor returned by open. I presume that these ioctl send the sound to the 
ALSA driver, because I didn't see any write against the file descriptor. The 
trace from both programs have a similar structure, but gxine produces no sound 
and aplay does. As I mentioned before, all mixer controls, but Master, are set 
at maximum value.

It must be something really obvious that I'm missing through sheer ignorance 
of the whole process. Could anybody shed some light on this ?

Thanks for bearing with me
Paulo