2012-03-10, 16:45
I've got a problem playing audio CDs using XBMC - every song played back direct from CD will "pause" for a few seconds near the end of the song, then continue to play to the end.
Watching the CD drive, during playback the drive is accessed every few seconds until about 30 seconds before the end of the song, then CD access stops. The song will continue to play, then just before the end playback is interrupted - the drive will spin up again and playback resumes. It's like the song gets buffered during playback, but not quite to the end and then the data "runs out".
I've tried using 4 different IDE DVD drives, and 1 SATA DVD drive. The problem remains the same, althought the length of the pause varies - possibly because some drives start up again faster than others.
I'm running XBMC 10.1 installed from the live CD on a Mythbuntu 10.04 backend only installation.
Everything else seems to work well so far - no problems playing back audio files from the hard drive, DVDs etc. - just audio CDs.
I've searched the forums and Googled, but not found other reports of this problem.
If I exit XBMC back to Xbuntu, the CD plays back fine.
I'm still new to Linux & don't know where to start to look, or how to get logs etc, but I can learn ...
If anyone can help me fix this I'd appreciate it!
Edit: OOPS, I meant to put this in the Linux sub-forum.
Watching the CD drive, during playback the drive is accessed every few seconds until about 30 seconds before the end of the song, then CD access stops. The song will continue to play, then just before the end playback is interrupted - the drive will spin up again and playback resumes. It's like the song gets buffered during playback, but not quite to the end and then the data "runs out".
I've tried using 4 different IDE DVD drives, and 1 SATA DVD drive. The problem remains the same, althought the length of the pause varies - possibly because some drives start up again faster than others.
I'm running XBMC 10.1 installed from the live CD on a Mythbuntu 10.04 backend only installation.
Everything else seems to work well so far - no problems playing back audio files from the hard drive, DVDs etc. - just audio CDs.
I've searched the forums and Googled, but not found other reports of this problem.
If I exit XBMC back to Xbuntu, the CD plays back fine.
I'm still new to Linux & don't know where to start to look, or how to get logs etc, but I can learn ...
If anyone can help me fix this I'd appreciate it!
Edit: OOPS, I meant to put this in the Linux sub-forum.