No sound on divx avi or flv only sistem sounds [solved]

[adrian.ccs]

Hello

I can't hear any of the flv or divx movies that I stream or got stored on my computer. I've tried building the OSS also using pulse audio. Im using a HP tx2z and before I got an update I could use divx and flv files normally could somebody tellme what I should do now?

[igorzwx]

Hi Adrian!

What is your sound card?

lspci | grep audio

Could you send me some examples of those divx and flv?

You may archive them with 7-Zip

EXAMPLE:

mumu.avi (17MB, for example)

create archive:

7z a -t7z mumu.avi.7z -v5m mumu.avi

unzip:

7z x mumu.avi.7z.001

NOTE: 7-Zip should be already installed on your box, if not, install it with Synaptic.

On Terminal:

man 7z

[adrian.ccs]

thanks Igor,

the command lspci | grep audio did not showed anything,

I can not play mp3 but I can use the online radios and youtube and the error sounds of the OS.

Anyways I've got the 64 bit version of linux mint, and for the hardware,
I used aplay -l and ispci -v and this is what Ive got:


adrian@adrian-laptop ~ $ aplay -l
aplay: device_list:217: no soundcards found...
adrian@adrian-laptop ~ $ lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3045
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx)
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00005000-00005fff
Memory behind bridge: d2200000-d23fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000c0000000-00000000cfffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=07, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00004fff
Memory behind bridge: d1200000-d21fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d0000000-00000000d0ffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:05.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=08, subordinate=08, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: d1100000-d11fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 2)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=09, subordinate=09, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
Memory behind bridge: b0000000-b00fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d1000000-00000000d10fffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (prog-if 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3045
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22
I/O ports at 6038 [size=8]
I/O ports at 604c [size=4]
I/O ports at 6030 [size=8]
I/O ports at 6048 [size=4]
I/O ports at 6010 [size=16]
Memory at d2409000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ahci

00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller (prog-if 10)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3045
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at d2408000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:12.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller (prog-if 10)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3045
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
Memory at d2407000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller (prog-if 20)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3045
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
Memory at d2409500 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller (prog-if 10)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3045
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at d2406000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller (prog-if 10)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3045
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at d2405000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller (prog-if 20)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3045
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at d2409400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3a)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3045
Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: piix4_smbus
Kernel modules: i2c-piix4

00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller (prog-if 80 [Master])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3045
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
I/O ports at 6000 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pata_atiixp

00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3045
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at d2400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: oss_hdaudio

00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3045
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0

00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge (prog-if 01)
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=80, subordinate=8f, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 00001000-00001fff

00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller (prog-if 10)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3045
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at d2404000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h HyperTransport Configuration (rev 40)
Flags: fast devsel
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Address Map
Flags: fast devsel

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h DRAM Controller
Flags: fast devsel

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Miscellaneous Control
Flags: fast devsel
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Link Control
Flags: fast devsel

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3045
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 2298
Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at 5000 [size=256]
Memory at d2300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Memory at d2200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: fglrx_pci
Kernel modules: fglrx

08:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 137f
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at d1100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: wl
Kernel modules: wl

09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3045
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 2299
I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
Memory at d1010000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
Memory at d1000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at d1020000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169

[Carl]

So your using the main edition? have you checked that PCM sound is'nt muted?

viewtopic.php?f=90&t=32351

[igorzwx]

Hi Adrian!

adrian@adrian-laptop ~ $ aplay -l
aplay: device_list:217: no soundcards found...

This may actually mean that you have not a proper ALSA driver for your sound card.
In Linux, there are ALSA drivers and OSS4 drivers for sound cards, and nothing more, as far as I know.

To fix ALSA, you may try the magic script (it is now maintained by soundcheck)
ALSA Upgrade Script
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6589810

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It makes sense to try OSS4
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenSound

Hints:
1. Compile OSS4 from Mercurial
2. When you run install command:

sudo dpkg -i oss*.deb

it will tell you which soundcards are detected.

You may better install another Mint 7 in dual boot on the same box (10GB is enough),
and make experiments there.

Read this story:
viewtopic.php?f=48&t=32173

Good luck!

[igorzwx]

To find out, which drivers (for soundcards) are loaded
type these commands on terminal:

lsmod | grep snd

lsmod | grep oss

INFO:

"lsmod | grep snd" may show ALSA drivers

"lsmod | grep oss" may show OSS drivers (if OSS4 is installed). It may also show ALSA drivers (alsa emulation of oss)

IMPORTANT: you cannot have ALSA and OSS4 simultaneously. They do not like each other.

[igorzwx]

QUOTE:
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3045
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at d2400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: oss_hdaudio

!!! Kernel driver in use: oss_hdaudio

oss_hdaudio is OSS4 driver!!!

It might be conflicting drivers.
OSS4 and ALSA do not like each other.

It was such case on Ubuntu forum, as I remember.

Or do you have OSS4 already installed?

To make things clear, install another Mint7 in dual boot on the same box.
Then compile OSS4 from Mercurial following this howto:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenSound

[igorzwx]

If you have OSS4 already installed,
this command may output an interesting info:

ossinfo -v3

This command may play sounds:

osstest

And this command may output info (on terminal):

ossmix

[igorzwx]

O.K.
This is what you told us:
"I can't hear any of the flv or divx movies that I stream or got stored on my computer. I've tried building the OSS also using pulse audio. Im using a HP tx2z and before I got an update I could use divx and flv files normally could somebody tellme what I should do now?"
"I can not play mp3 but I can use the online radios and youtube and the error sounds of the OS."

QUESTIONS:

1. Do you have PulseAudio installed or not?
2. If you have OSS4, how did you install it?
3. Have you tried to play your mp3s with VLC ?
4. Can you play mp3s from "Security Now" with VLC?

sudo apt-get install vlc

Security Now!
http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm

[adrian.ccs]

Solved I just deactivated my Modem driver thanks

[anna8124]

I'm new to this forum, so sorry if this has been asked loads of times before. I'm currently in the process of encoding my flv's into divx's with handbrake. but i got no satisfactory reasults, the output image is too vague, I donot know what the problem is.
Anybody care to shed light on this?