I’ve been having these weird problem with sound after the last few updates. The background music of a youtube video or audio CD playback would be fine, but any vocal/commentary track that contains human voice would be all jumbled up and sounds like you are listening to it from underwater. The volume for the human voice part of the audio would also be a lot lower than the music track. Not sure what the problem is, and the only way of solving it was through system restore (which actually takes more time than a reinstall). The test sound in YAST sounds fine (well, it’s a music track afterall), and most instrumental music on youtube seems to play correctly. Thanks for the helps in advance.
I think you need to provide more information for anyone who might have seen this before. Things like
what openSUSE version?? You know this. We don’t.
what desktop ?? again, You know this. We don’t.
what media players ?? again … same as above, You know this. We dont’
what output audio mode selected in the media players … again, same as above …
what other audio files are open when this occurs? This information can be learned by running the following many times, and learning what it means after MANY times running it (under different conditions):
lsof /dev/dsp* /dev/audio* /dev/mixer* /dev/snd/*
what alsa rpms (and what versions) do you have installed when this occurs?
what audio codec is the “voice” saved in? Did you try voice in different audio codecs ?
is pulse audio enabled? disabled?
Edit: I note this is your first post to our forum. May I say WELCOME to openSUSE and WELCOME to our forum.
what media players ?? youtube was watched using firefox and flash, audio was played using banshee
what output audio mode selected in the media players The default, I didn’t touch it since installation
what other audio files are open when this occurs? This information can be learned by running the following many times, and learning what it means after MANY times running it (under different conditions):
Code:
lsof /dev/dsp* /dev/audio* /dev/mixer* /dev/snd/*
I’ll look into that, thanks.
what alsa rpms (and what versions) do you have installed when this occurs? The default 11.2 RPM, and I think the problem began when I installed the security updates (not sure which one)
what audio codec is the “voice” saved in? Did you try voice in different audio codecs ? No idea here, I think all the flash video files on youtube has the voice portion saved under the same codec? The audio CD is just an album I bought from the music store.
is pulse audio enabled? disabled? I think it’s enabled, otherwise I won’t be able to hear the test sound in YAST, right?
Thanks for the reply, hope the info I provided are what is needed to determine the problem =/
Err… Yeah, the whole thing sounds like an out of tuned radio because the earphone I was using was messed up. Attaching an external speaker after everyone left the office results in perfectly normal sound output. Anyway, thanks for the help, and I’ll make sure to check the hardware before trying to mess with the software next time =)
Can you download the video that is giving you problems in firefox/flash and then try to play it from another multimedia application ? Is the problem still there ?
Maybe the problem is NOT sound driver but it is application related?
Ahh … that does not help, since I don’t use banshee. Can you not check ?
Let us know the output.
I understand your difficult, but can’t you be a bit more precise? Did you try:
rpm -qa --last > myrpms.txt
and then open up myrpms.txt with a text editor to see what rpms were changed on the day the problem ocurred?
or instead
rpm -qa --last | more
and use the functionality of “more” to scroll up/down, etc …
Can’t you be more precise? Download mediainfo from Pacman and use that to determine codecs.