[ubuntu-uk] sound issues - fixed

[Matthew Daubney]

On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 17:59 +0000, Paul Sutton wrote:
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> Farran Lee wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 17:41 +0000, Paul Sutton wrote:
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> > Paul Sutton wrote:
> >>>> Hi
> >>>>
> >>>> I am having issues with sound on ubuntu 8.10
> >>>>
> >>>> having tried both pulse audio and alsa,  I am still having a similar issue
> >>>>
> >>>> my volume is low,  despite the speaker being turned up and the vlc and
> >>>> panel control being turned up,  It plays at a reasonable volume, or at a
> >>>> level I would expect with the speaker turned down to 1/2 or less of its
> >>>> current level.
> >>>>
> >>>> Not sure where to start looking
> >>>>
> >>>> Paul
> > 
> > Looks like i have fixed it,  pcm volume was down, (what ever pcm is)
> > 
> > It still has a tendancy to cut out, for a few seconds,  not sure why,
> > it seems like some sort of buffer issue, but so when watching a video i
> > miss dialog for a few seconds.
> > 
> > Paul
> > 
> >>
> 
> > yeah, mine does that every so often, but not with pcm: the master volume
> > just resets itself to about 65% volume. :\ oh well hehe not so bad I
> > guess, just annoying
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> > Farran Lee
> > I'm only 16 :P
> 
> 
> yeah its annoying as i looked at the pcm settting,  and didn't really
> have an explanation as to what that actually stood for, or meant so kind
> of dis-missed it,
> 
> as for the cutting out i just put up with it,  as its not application
> specific.
> 
> Paul

PCM stands for Pulse Code Modulation, very detailed wiki article here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCM 

I usually consider it as the wav out.

-Matt Daubney