[Alsa-xmms-user] Re: Problem with endianness

[mattam]

On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 05:52:49AM -0700, Ondrej Certik wrote: 
> > > 
> > > Do you have any suggestions where the problem with
> > > a noisy beginning of some songs I described
> > > in the last email could be?
> > > 
> > I have no idea. Can you try other alsa players like 
> > alsaplayer ?
> 
> Unfortunately not, since they have the same problem.
> :-( And I am glad that xmms functions now, so I am not
> really interested in finding a bug in their player.
> 
> But it seems to me, like if xmms is trying to play
> some old audio data at the beginning of a song,
> because when I switch between ogg files I sometimes
> hear a bit of the old song at the beginning (I am
> quite sure about it, although it is only for a few
> miliseconds). But when
> I switch from wav to ogg, the endiannes of the old
> data 
> in the buffer is wrong, since the new data are
> big-endian and the old data from wav are
> little-endian. 
> So after switching from wav to ogg, I sometimes hear
> the noise caused by wrong endiannes.
> 
> Maybe I am completely mistaken, but still, do you
> think
> that something like this is possible in xmms?
> That it forgets to remove old data from some buffer?
> Or
> is it easy to implement for example that the buffer
> would be cleaned everytime I switch to a new song,
> just
> to test that this really is the case?
> 
> Well, it could be a bug in the alsa driver as well,
> so maybe I could try to deinicialize and initialize
> alsa everytime I switch between songs, just to be sure
> that the problem is in the alsa driver and not in the
> xmms.
> 
> If you have any suggestions what (and how) from this
> should I test, it would be great. 
> 

I use the xmms-crossfade plugin and there is an option to start/stop the
audio driver on each song change. Maybe you can try it. From what you
tell me it's certainly an alsa-driver problem.

> Thanks
> Ondrej Certik
> 
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