ALSA & VLC simultanious playback problem [SOLVED]

[wizandrew]

i am using Kubuntu 10.10 and VLC 1.1.8

when i use VLC (watching something) nothing else can use ALSA and vise versa when anything else using the sound VLC says:

Potential ALSA version problem:
VLC failed to initialize your sound output device (if any).
Please update alsa-lib to version 1.0.23-2-g8d80d5f or higher to try to fix this issue.

so i need to clsoe all other progs that use sound (ALSA) and only then start playing with vlc! it is really annoying
alsa is already fully updated 1.0.23-2

P.S
everything else works fine diff players works fine (even if i start 3 at once) the prob just with vlc.
as i remember it started happening after i connected an HDMI TV if i remember it right it happened before probably for the same reason but it passed after i reinstalled Ubuntu (had to for some other reason or was it an upgrade)... anyway i got the point i hope

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Ubuntu ALSA 1.0.23-2 is ALSA 1.0.23 + Ubuntu patches level 2, and is insufficient.

Basically, you need ALSA 1.0.24.

[wizandrew]

well basically it went like this:
i tried upgrading to 1.0.24 obviously its not in th repository (cos its for natty) found some ppa & guides nothing worked right and i lost sound completely...
as i didnt make a back up before ting it & now i had no sound i said wth and upgraded to natty beta2 now its alsa 1.0.24 but the problem that was before with vlc only now with everything else too!
if i start 1 program that uses sound (music/video) all other progs cant use alsa and it says in notification alsa not responding falling back too... and no sound!

so if before i could have started 5 progs with sound except vlc now i can start 1 then close it then start another witch is even worse...

[wizandrew]

ok another update.
i solved the previous problem by Adding

Code: Select all

options snd-hda-intel model=3stack

to the end of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
which bring me back to the post i started from everything works simultaneously except VLC!
which also bring me to the conclusion its something with vlc and not anything else. (as everything else works great and always was even with old drivers except vlc)

except this small problem i find vlc great. so any ideas would be appreciated

[wizandrew]

I SOLVED IT!
after poking around in the advanced options of VLC and trying basically everything it started working after i changed:
"Audio output frequency" from -1 (default) to 48000
in ADVANCED MODE->audio

thx for the help