On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 22:34 +0100, Martin Collins wrote:
I can't perform any updates at the moment as I have no broadband and can only connect via bluetooth and my mobile phone. Long, long, long, long story involving TalkTalk, Tiscali, OFCOM & BT. In short, my tag is no longer on my line and it's clear for other broadband suppliers. However when BT Wholesale (and other broadband suppliers) try to do a test order it throws it back because of a problem with BT's database that BT are trying to fix (for some months now). In the meantime the only way round it is to try and find a broadband supplier that is prepared to do a "manual order". The only one I've found so far is Demon Internet so it looks like I'll be going with them. BT have really annoyed me though.
Heh all sounds too familiar to me. Is this the problem with BT's database where it can take up to 2 weeks for changes to be reflected (new lines etc) or a different problem.
Anyway, after several hours mucking about I've fixed the audio sync problem by switching the audio output in MPlayer to OSS instead of ALSA. All is fine but the only thing that bugs me about it is that I was under the impression that on my Ubuntu 6.06 box, OSS is actually emulated OSS support under, err ALSA. So really whether MPlayer is set to OSS or ALSA it's actually ALSA doing the work. Am I wrong?
Hmm that is a little odd, I would have expected the opposite to be true, ALSA experience changes depending on your hardware, In the end I got fed up with various glitches involving software grabbing my audio hardware etc and fitted a SB Live card with hardware mixing support, now I have no problems with sound whatsoever and the quality is noticeably better than the integrated stuff as well.
The only slight issue is that my SB card doesn't support front audio sockets so I need to get busy with the soldering iron to get back the functionality where plugging in a set of headphones mutes the rear outputs.