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[ikus060]

Hi,

My first question would be : How to I solve the problem of this warning :
WARNING: CALSADirectSound::CALSADirectSound - device is not able to pause playback, will flush instead

It's seems to cause video playback problem.

My other question :
Does any other people have problem with video play back. Many time, XBMC crash, doesn't play back, stop audio play back or video playback, crash ..
Please tell me that XBMC is more stable than my own experience. I seams to have all this problem with Intrepid or ATI card. I try it on my personal computer and seams to have less problem ..

Thanks for your help ..

Patrik Dufresne

[tslayer]

You should provide way more details. Please see signature for help on what you should provide when asking for help.

To answer your 2nd question, no problems at all. If you are on Intrepid, maybe you are experiencing the pulseaudio conflict... try searching.

[althekiller]

First one isn't really a fixable problem. When you pause video you'll notice the video plays out of sync, but quickly catches up upon resume. This is because you audio device is unable to pause the stream so we flush the remaining buffer and you loose that bit of audio (normally <1s).

[ikus060]

Hi althekiller,
Hi tslayer,

Thanks for the quick reply.

Yeah, your right I notice this happen. the thing I don't understand is that VLC and MPlayer doesn't have this problem ?! So what wrong with your playback system ?

Also, many time, when I pause, XBMC just stop responding and I ear the same noise repeat again and again. I need to restart all the computer to 'solve' the problem and play the video with VLC.


Here the logs message I get :
20:30:56 T:3067000624 M: 6500352 DEBUG: Unloading: ImageLib-i486-linux.so
20:30:59 T:3067000624 M: 7753728 DEBUG: ------------------- GUI_MSG_WINDOW_INIT
20:30:59 T:3067000624 M: 7753728 DEBUG: Fullscreen OSD
20:30:59 T:3067000624 M: 7753728 DEBUG: -------------------
20:31:01 T:3067000624 M: 8253440 DEBUG: OnMessage : Translating XBMC.PlayerControl(Play)
20:31:01 T:3067000624 M: 8253440 DEBUG: OnMessage : To XBMC.PlayerControl(Play)
20:31:01 T:2830613392 M: 8253440 WARNING: CALSADirectSound::CALSADirectSound - device is not able to pause playback, will flush instead
20:31:01 T:3067000624 M: 8253440 DEBUG: ------------------- GUI_MSG_WINDOW_INIT
20:31:01 T:3067000624 M: 8253440 DEBUG:
20:31:01 T:3067000624 M: 8253440 DEBUG: -------------------
20:31:01 T:3067000624 M: 8253440 DEBUG: Load seekslider.png: 0.0ms (bundled)
20:31:01 T:3067000624 M: 8253440 DEBUG: Load slider_nibFO.png: 0.0ms (bundled)
20:31:01 T:3067000624 M: 8253440 DEBUG: Alloc resources: 0.28ms (0.00 ms skin load, 0.11 ms preload)
20:31:01 T:3067000624 M: 8253440 DEBUG: Load NoCover_1.png: 0.6ms (bundled)
20:31:01 T:3067000624 M: 8253440 DEBUG: Load NoCover_1.png: 0.6ms (bundled)
20:31:01 T:3067000624 M: 8253440 DEBUG: Load black-back.png: 0.1ms (bundled)
20:32:31 T:2830613392 M: 10506240 ERROR: Flush - flush-prepare, alsa error: Input/output error
20:32:31 T:3067000624 M: 10670080 DEBUG: ------------------- GUI_MSG_WINDOW_DEINIT
20:32:31 T:3067000624 M: 10670080 DEBUG: Fullscreen OSD
20:32:31 T:3067000624 M: 10670080 DEBUG: -------------------

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Patrik Dufresne

[ikus060]

Here the Audio controller I have (on board) :
Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)

[althekiller]

ERROR: Flush - flush-prepare, alsa error: Input/output error

Probably why you're getting the repeated sound thing. I'd put money on this being pulseaudio related.

[ikus060]

If I get back to Hardy, I guest it's gonna solve the problem right ? I will do the test this evening.

Thanks

[althekiller]

The quicker test would be to uninstall pulseaudio et. al.

[topfs2]

If I get back to Hardy, I guest it's gonna solve the problem right ? I will do the test this evening.

Thanks

as AlTheKiller said, its better to uninstall or kill pulseaudio. Because hardy have troubles with PulseAudio and XBMC aswell.

As a test, write this in terminal
killall pulseaudio
xbmc

if it works then its pulseaudio, if not then reboot and nothing have changed.

Cheers,
Tobias

[ikus060]

Hi,

I manage to solve the problem by installing everything on hardy (xbmc work out of the box).

On intrepid, I need to kill pulseaudio to get xbmc work properly.

Thanks to everyone