[Bug 14827] Garbled sound

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------- Additional Comments From spd106 at lycos.co.uk  2005-09-14 14:55 UTC -------
(In reply to comment #5)
 
> I presume you imply that the ALSA and OSS output plugins in XMMS both work fine
> regardless whether the external USB CD-ROM is connected?

I thought this at first but then when i retried it i found that with the usb
cd-rom plugged in it sometimes works with ALSA and OSS, but not everytime. I
have tried internet streams with realplayer 8 and it seems to act in a similar way.

Just to clarify the situation i will recap.

First of all the laptop sound works fine on it's own. CD's work as do media
files. The problems start when i plug in the usb drive. At first it will sound
garbled in the right speaker, then the right speaker goes out of sync and seems
to play faster. After about a minute it's nearly a second ahead of the left speaker.

This always happens when i try to play an audio cd from the USB drive. I've
tried cd player and xmms with ALSA, esound and OSS drivers. I can only use
digital input. If i switch to analog i get no sound at all. It will also garble
in Rhythmbox and Totem when playing an ogg file from the hard drive.

When i play a cd from my internal dvd-rom drive i get different results. Using
xmms and the Alsa or OSS output drivers it can play fine sometimes but not
always, i often get around 40 secs of fine then it starts to garble. Other times
it starts immediately or doesn't occur at all. It seems quite hit and miss. With
the esound driver though it always goes bad. I get similar results with internet
streams and realplayer 8. Once again ALSA and OSS are intermittant and esound
always goes bad. 

If i change the DVD drive input to analog in xmms it seems to work perfectly.

Oh and the usb drive is a Freecom FX-1 CD-RW. 

I think that about covers it.
Thanks
 

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