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Awesome Donkey:
You can try running mediacenter21 in a Terminal and post the output here when it crashes. Ubuntu Studio is an untested configuration, so it may or may not work.

audiotone:
Mc 20 works fine in ubuntu studio...mc 21 still does not...
I already payed for mc 22...hope that one will work...

gm.cnc:
Hi,

I am a long time user of Media Center on Windows. I am now investigating its usage on Mint.

Is there a device/setting that guarantees that the source information (FLAC) is not modified by the audio stack? For instance, unlike for Windows, it's always possible to adjust the sound level. I have an IEC958 interface + DAC.

Thanks in advance,

Gilles


--- Quote from: mwillems on June 06, 2016, 11:19:17 pm ---The devices with names that start with "front:" or "surround:" are hardware devices that use the ALSA protocol to talk directly to the hardware without resampling.  They're analogous to (but not exactly the same as) WASAPI exclusive in windows in that they take exclusive control of the hardware and prevent resampling.  The same device may be enumerated multiple times because Linux treats different output channel counts on the same device as separate devices (also called sinks).  So for a six channel dac, you might see a "front" device, a "surround2.1" device, a "surround5.1" device, etc.  For stereo playback, the appropriate hardware sink is the "front:" entry that corresponds to the audio device you want to play to.

There will be some others as well; the main other "notable" one to look for is the "Pulse" output.  Pulse is the current system mixer software bundled with most linux distributions.  It's analogous to direct sound output on windows: all programs can output at the same time, but all audio must be resampled to a single rate (48k by default).  Depending on how your distro configured the audio stack the ALSA[default] and ALSA[dmix] outputs may work the similarly to the pulse output, or differently, or not work at all.

Generally, I'd recommend choosing the hardware output that corresponds to the number of channels you want for the physical device you want.  So "[ALSA] front: cmedia," for stereo output on a cmedia device, etc.

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bob:

--- Quote from: gm.cnc on July 24, 2016, 04:06:49 pm ---Hi,

I am a long time user of Media Center on Windows. I am now investigating its usage on Mint.

Is there a device/setting that guarantees that the source information (FLAC) is not modified by the audio stack? For instance, unlike for Windows, it's always possible to adjust the sound level. I have an IEC958 interface + DAC.

Thanks in advance,

Gilles


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When the hardware device is selected (ie IEC958) and the system volume control you won't be able to control the volume since the source will be sent to the device driver as is.
I assume that is also the case when the volume control is set to internal and the volume is at 100% and you aren't using any DSP functions.

gm.cnc:
I can always control the volume, even IEC958 interface is selected. What do you mean by "volume control is set to internal" ?

Thanks

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