Something broke my streaming audio! <fixed> see thread "What do I lose"

[donvan1]

I daily visit several streaming audio sites ie "oneplace.com" "youtube" etc.  In the last few days my ability to hear streaming audio from these sites has stopped. I've installed nothing but the updates via synaptic.  Anyone else had this problem?  Any ideas!  I do have system sound. I am booted (on another hard drive) into PCLOS2009 with KDE3.5 and am having no problems.

AMD dual core processor, asus m3a78em mb with onboard sound. 4 gigs ram I am using  ALSA "snd_hda_intel audio driver. The video shows up on youtube but no audio.

I am having my problem using KDE4.5 desktop, but also had the same problem switching to the E17 desktop...both on the same installation.

[muungwana]

can you hear audio when playing local files? what audio/video player do u use?

what program do you use for steaming? is it a web browser? try a different one and see if the same problem is still there

[donvan1]

muungwana, thanks for you quick response to my problem. yes amarok does play audio and and the audio tracks of my video files. My video players however (dragon player, kaffeine, etc) report a segmentation fault when attempting to play the same video files. Online in Firefox or in Chromium browser when I attempt to stream an audio file the start arrow of the online player blinks and the file refuses to play. With Youtube the video plays but no audio comes out.

[muungwana]

open the terminal and type "firefox" to start firefox from the terminal and then try to stream something and then look at the terminal and report back any output you see.

Maybe you have a misconfigured sound system and you are using a wrong sound driver, have you tried to go to pcc audio section and reconfigure the sound driver? what driver is in use now?

[donvan1]

from the terminal I typed firefox then navigated to Youtube...still no audio. upon closing firefox I noted nothing in the Konsole terminal except my original "firefox" entry and a new prompt.

from the PCC audio configuration file I see:
Here you can select an alternative driver (either OSS or ALSA) for your sound card (ATI Technologies Inc|SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)).

Your card currently use the ALSA "snd_hda_intel" driver (default driver for your card is "snd_hda_intel")
that is the driver installed in the "driver" box. I have not tried to reconfigure the audio file since it works with system audio, Skype, and with Amarok.

[muungwana]

you are using a correct driver, do you have a package called "aoss" installed? install it if you dont and try again

do you know when exactly it stopped working? a check of synaptic's install history could shed some light on what package update broke your sound

try log in to another account and then try to stream something and reports if it works or not

what does this command give you?

lspci

[donvan1]

yes aoss is installed according to synaptic. I have logged in as root and tried streaming audio...didn't work. the output of lspci is as follows:
[don@localhost ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (ext gfx port 0)
00:05.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 2)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [IDE mode]
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3a)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400 GS] (rev a1)
02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): JMicron Technology Corp. IEEE 1394 Host Controller
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
[don@localhost ~]$

synaptic history reports these file installed or modified in Jan 2011

Commit Log for Mon Jan 10 08:34:15 2011


Upgraded the following packages:
iproute2 (2.6.29.1-1pclos2010) to 2.6.37-1pclos2011
iso-codes (3.22-1pclos2010) to 3.24-1pclos2011
kdeutils4 (4.5.4-2pclos2010) to 4.5.4-3pclos2011
kdeutils4-ark (4.5.4-2pclos2010) to 4.5.4-3pclos2011
kdeutils4-core (4.5.4-2pclos2010) to 4.5.4-3pclos2011
kdeutils4-kcalc (4.5.4-2pclos2010) to 4.5.4-3pclos2011
kdeutils4-kcharselect (4.5.4-2pclos2010) to 4.5.4-3pclos2011
kdeutils4-kdf (4.5.4-2pclos2010) to 4.5.4-3pclos2011
kdeutils4-kfloppy (4.5.4-2pclos2010) to 4.5.4-3pclos2011
kdeutils4-kgpg (4.5.4-2pclos2010) to 4.5.4-3pclos2011
kdeutils4-kremotecontrol (4.5.4-2pclos2010) to 4.5.4-3pclos2011
kdeutils4-ktimer (4.5.4-2pclos2010) to 4.5.4-3pclos2011
kdeutils4-kwallet (4.5.4-2pclos2010) to 4.5.4-3pclos2011
kdeutils4-okteta (4.5.4-2pclos2010) to 4.5.4-3pclos2011
kdeutils4-superkaramba (4.5.4-2pclos2010) to 4.5.4-3pclos2011
kdeutils4-sweeper (4.5.4-2pclos2010) to 4.5.4-3pclos2011
libmpg123_0 (1.13.0-1pclos2010) to 1.13.1-1pclos2011
libquicktime0 (1.2.1-1pclos2010) to 1.2.2-1pclos2011
mpg123 (1.13.0-1pclos2010) to 1.13.1-1pclos2011
radeontool (1.5-1pclos2007) to 1.6.0-1pclos2011

Installed the following packages:
perl-PGP-GPG-MessageProcessor (0.4.5-104pclos2009)
python-gpgme (0.1-3pclos2010)

[donvan1]

i missed one answer...i think the problem in an intermittant form started a week or so ago. sometimes i would close an firefox window and log off and back on again and streaming audio work work.

[donvan1]

Well this just sucks...I powered down my machine...restarted and logged in. I started firefox and shazam oneplace.com streaming files opened and worked....youtube audio was back and working correctly.  I successfully played local video files in SMPlayer, divx, and wma. also Totum movie player works with my video files....however neither Dragon Player or Kaffeine will play any of the local video files...still get the "segmentation fault" error.  Maybe I have a hardware bug. I was sure it was an update from synaptic that was at fault.  Sorry.

[muungwana]

so your audio problem appear to be gone for the moment?

If Smplayer works as expected but those two fail then the problem is most likely due to them using a wrong video output driver. Both of these apps that crash do not have an option to change the setting and hence i have no idea on how to make them use a different video output.

Why not use smplayer or any other video player that works as your default video player? which one do you use now?

[donvan1]

first I want to thank you for all of your help and want to let you know that yes it worked this time after a power down and reboot of the system but that was not the first time today that I powered the system down and rebooted it without success. I also soft started the system a couple of times with the restart command and had no luck.  I agree that if I can make my local files operate under any of the available players it will be fine. One thing I did the last time was to disable a add on in firefox that allows you to capture youtube streams.  I can't see how that would affect local files being played with other players but oh well. I dont wish to get a reputation on this forum of not trying things before I cry wolf. If I find a definate solution to this problem I will post it back to the forum. In the meantime I'll mark this subject as possibly fixed.