[Solved] Alsa, Dmix, Flash and keyboard volume control

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GTXcube · Post by **GTXcube** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 3:19 pm

Hello everybody. I have some problems with those things. I give you an examples.
1. When I start vlc & rhythmbox and then I start firefox with flash player, I can't hear any sound from flash. Sound from rhythmbox and vlc works
2. When I start firefox with 2 flash videos and then I start rhythmbox or vlc, I can hear sound from both vids but I can't hear sound from my player
3. I have some keys to control volume on my keyboard. They works good but not for flash !

This is my /etc/asound.conf file

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pcm.dmixer 
{
	type dmix
	slave 
	{
		pcm "hw:1,7"
	}
	bindings 
	{
		0 0
		1 1
	}
}

pcm.!default
{
	type plug
	slave.pcm dmixer
}

Do you have any ideas ? What else should I post ? Thanks

Logicien · Post by **Logicien** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 3:58 pm

Hi,
I just come to make a test. I played two Flash videos from Youtube simultaneously, than start Gnome-mplayer with an other video and all of them where earable. According with

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$ aplay -l
**** Liste des Périphériques Matériels PLAYBACK ****
carte 0: pcsp [pcsp], périphérique 0: pcspeaker [pcsp]
  Sous-périphériques: 1/1
  Sous-périphérique #0: subdevice #0
carte 1: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], périphérique 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Sous-périphériques: 1/1
  Sous-périphérique #0: subdevice #0
carte 2: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], périphérique 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
  Sous-périphériques: 1/1
  Sous-périphérique #0: subdevice #0

I use card number 2. So my /etc/asound.conf is

pcm.!default {
type hw
card 2
}

pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixer"
}

pcm.dmixer {
type dmix
ipc_key 1024
slave {
channels 6
buffer_size 4096
buffer_time 0
pcm "hw:2,0"
period_size 1024
period_time 0
rate 48000
}
bindings {
0 0
1 1
}
}

ctl.dmixer {
type hw
card 2
}

ctl.!default {
type hw
card 2
}

The 2 in bold tell Alsa to use card number 2. You have to restart all applications after make a change to /etc/asound.conf.

PaulBredbury · Post by **PaulBredbury** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 5:06 pm

Flash does not like low values for period_size and/or buffer_size. Take a look at the sample config in my sig.

Logicien · Post by **Logicien** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 6:21 pm

I haven't remark any problem with my actual asound.conf. I will try to increase the values. What's the best if I am not only using Flash?

PaulBredbury · Post by **PaulBredbury** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 6:36 pm

Logicien wrote:What's the best if I am not only using Flash?

Whatever works with reasonable latency. The important thing is to be specifying them, so the first app to open the sound device doesn't set weird parameters that the other apps are then forced to use.

Logicien · Post by **Logicien** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 7:38 pm

Very good. Thank you !

GTXcube · Post by **GTXcube** » Fri Jan 04, 2013 1:26 pm

This is my aplay -l

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**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 9: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I use card 1, device 7 si I edited Logicien's asound.conf but always I can't hear sound from flash and some player in the same time and control volume of flash with my keyboard :/
Isn't it because I use HDMI ?

Logicien · Post by **Logicien** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 4:17 pm

Did youy try card 0?

GTXcube · Post by **GTXcube** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 4:37 pm

Card 0 is internal intel audio card on my motherboard and I have HDMI cable to A/V receiver from my nvidia card so I use card 1. I think the problem is in asound.conf but idk where :/

jiaxi · Post by **jiaxi** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 2:08 pm

You can use dmix when you use default params to open audio device. And you canot open audio device use hw:1,7 when you use default params to open audio.

_______0 · Post by **_______0** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 12:44 pm

PaulBredbury wrote:Flash does not like low values for period_size and/or buffer_size. Take a look at the sample config in my sig.

Is it possible to find out about sound card's hardware buffer size? Then to work around those values to optimize for the card.

I ask because on another thread I was told that all hardware have buffers in them.

PaulBredbury · Post by **PaulBredbury** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 1:10 pm

_______0 wrote:optimize for the card

Gotta optimize for the software as well as the hardware, and the fussiness of the user.

So it's more a case of trial and error. I don't know a way of getting the hardware specs.

GTXcube · Post by **GTXcube** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 10:23 pm

So is there any possible way to get software mixing for my hw1,7 ? I think I tried everything I found with google but nothing works

Edit: Ok finally i got it working. I don't understand how but it works. I removed /etc/asound.conf, ~/.asoundrc and then I just selected right audio device in gnome-volume-control but anyway, thanks for all your replies