Some wave files in Kubuntu are stopped short while playing through phonon's xine backend

[Nerdopolis]

It seems that in my Kubuntu karmic system, I am unable to play some wave files, particularly short ones. Other formats seem to play just fine such as .ogg files. This happens in the two computers I try it on (and if I can remember correctly perhaps even a third). (one has a M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device from ALi Corporation, and the other has an integrated Intel one)

When I try to play a wave file, such as the k3b burning complete wave file (/usr/share/sounds/k3b_success1.wav) (reproductivity of that file has been 100%, and it gets clipped in almost the exact place) some wave files I am able to play completely, some aren't, and it seems that the shorter and smaller wave files have a higher chance of getting cut short.
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AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: A5451 [ALI 5451], device 0: ALI 5451 [ALI 5451]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: ubuntu 2807 F.... knotify4
                      ubuntu 2849 F.... kmix
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'A5451'/'ALI 5451 at 0x8400, irq 5'
   Mixer name : 'Conexant Cx20468 rev 1,Conexant Cx20468 rev 1'
   Components : 'AC97a:43585429 AC97m:43585429'
   Controls : 25
   Simple ctrls : 18
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
LiveMediaBuild: Kubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100225)
Package: alsa-base 1.0.22.1+dfsg-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-14.20-generic
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-14-generic i686
UserGroups:

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Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: phonon-backend-xine 4:4.4.0-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this reproducible in current Lucid?

[Nerdopolis (bluescreen-avenger)]

Its still doing it in Kubuntu Lucid. I tried a live CD from 2/26/2010.

I don't think this should be under pulseaudio, it seems Kubuntu doesn't use pulse audio, and seems to me to be more of a codec thing.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

While in Lucid, please use apport-collect -p alsa-base 515837

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Sorry, this really isn't a driver issue, either. (I only had the summary in the e-mail.) Are you /certain/ you don't have pulseaudio installed and running? It can be installed via Recommends.

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[Nerdopolis (bluescreen-avenger)]

it seems like pulseaudio is not installed with Kubuntu... both the lucid live cd, and my karmic system had no pulseaudio installed. (which both are Kubuntu)

[Nerdopolis (bluescreen-avenger)]

I discovered that there is one program that plays waves correctly. That program is the 'aplay' command. I don't know how aplay defers from the other programs I use to play wavs like amarok and the part of kde that plays system sounds.

[Nerdopolis (bluescreen-avenger)]

I found out that this is in phonon-backend-xine or one of its libraries. I switched the phonon backend to gstreamer, and wav files play correctly.

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[Montblanc (montblanc)]

I confirm that this bug is on KDE 4.5 RC1 from kubuntu-ppa/beta as well. I tried installing pulseaudio, but to no avail. I have a SB X-fi using default drivers from Lucid kernel.

$ apt-cache policy phonon-backend-xine
phonon-backend-xine:
  Installato: 4:4.7.0really4.4.2-0ubuntu1~lucid1~ppa1
  Candidato: 4:4.7.0really4.4.2-0ubuntu1~lucid1~ppa1
  Tabella versione:
 *** 4:4.7.0really4.4.2-0ubuntu1~lucid1~ppa1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/beta/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4:4.4.0-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

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[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

We changed the default Phonon backend a while ago, which should have fixed this issue.