Nectar's questions

When I try to play my 5.1 flac files with ffplay, it automatically detects the stream thusly:

  Duration: xx:xx:xx.xx, start: 0.000000, bitrate: xxxx kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Audio: flac, 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), s32 (24 bit)

As you can see, it detects the files as having the channel layout 5.1(side). This makes the side speakers (which should really be rear speakers) very quiet. If I add gain to those channels, they distort. I just want them to play properly, with the other 5.1 channel layout in the ffplay documentation, described as FL,FR,C,LFE,RL,RR.

Here is an excerpt from the ffplay documentation:

Standard channel layout compositions can be specified by using the following identifiers:

‘5.1’

    FL+FR+FC+LFE+BL+BR

‘5.1(side)’

    FL+FR+FC+LFE+SL+SR 

Both of the above layouts have 6 channels. So how can I specify I want to use '5.1' and not '5.1(side)'?

It’s for this layout the audio was mixed, and it’s this layout that I have set up with speakers.

How can I achieve this?

Running Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 LTS. budgie-panel crashes every 30 minutes or so. This is the error message:

(budgie-panel:30012): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 20:47:56.014: gtk_widget_add_accelerator: assertion 'GTK_IS_ACCEL_GROUP (accel_group)' failed

If someone can interpret this for me, or offer a solution, that would be great. Thanks, all.

Essentially, I have Night Light enabled in the panel to change my colour temperature

Occasionally (every few minutes) I get a brief flicker or two where the temperature switches back to what it was when Night Light was off, and then back again.

Why is this conflict happening? What could be fighting in the display settings that I have overlooked?

Many thanks.

This is my problem:

The search area in the top left of the panel goes off the screen. The whole thing is just a whole lot bigger than it was before I upgraded. How can this be rectified?

I have a lot of 5.1 flac files. They play just fine, apart from not every channel will be downmixed at the right volume to the two speakers in my headphones while playing. This is the same no matter what player I use (vlc, ffplay, mpv, parole)

The front two, centre and LFE tracks are downmixed, and I hear them, but the rear two are very quiet.

A quick speaker-test shows this to be true.

How can I fix this? So far alsamixer has been totally unhelpful, as it never seems to display each virtual speaker, just a master volume, PCM, etc.

EDIT: I installed paman, and it shows how the sound goes from the sink input as "s16le 6ch 48000Hz" and somehow becomes "s16le 2ch 48000Hz", but during that process the channels are butchered and mixed wrong. What kind of malformed wizardry is this? Where can I find a mixer that will fix this?

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I'm wanting to play strictly audio files with FFplay. Already when opening files it displays a window with a rolling spectogram.

I'd like to have the same spectogram with an overlay of a timecode in hh:mm:ss.

There is nothing on the man page whatsoever of this.

How can I achieve this?

I am trying to setup teamviewer's raspberry pi client on my banana pi. As described below, even after confirming that teamviewer daemon is running, teamviewer setup still insists it is not running, despite all the evidence. I am running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

pi@bananapi:~$ sudo teamviewer daemon start

initctl start teamviewerd
teamviewerd start/running, process 3024

pi@bananapi:~$ sudo teamviewer setup


TeamViewer daemon is not running, setup cannot continue. Please activate the TeamViewer daemon before invoking setup.

pi@bananapi:~$ sudo teamviewer daemon start

initctl start teamviewerd
teamviewerd start/running, process 3234

pi@bananapi:~$ sudo teamviewer daemon status

initctl status teamviewerd
teamviewerd start/running, process 3290

pi@bananapi:~$

Help to fix this issue and to continue with the setup would be ideal. Thank you.

I've been having a lot of trouble fixing up the remains of my server after upgrading to Xenial yesterday.

PHP apps run as a mess of code, and ownCloud 'can't be found on the server' anymore.

It may be something to do with these errors I get when trying to run Apache2 from the command line.

I hope I can get some help on this, a lot of computers rely on this thing :/

I'd provide some more logs, but they are huge and I wouldn't know what parts to provide.

Oh, and I get this error when trying to install PHP5, if this helps.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Here's the output from running 'apache2' from the command line:

I have been unable to format/delete the partitions on my Sandisk Cruzer Force 32 GB USB Drive. I get the following error when deleting any of the partitions on it.

`Error deleting partition /dev/sdd2: Command-line `parted --script "/dev/sdd" "rm 2"' exited with non-zero exit status 1: Warning: The driver descriptor says the physical block size is 2048 bytes, but Linux says it is 512 bytes.
(udisks-error-quark, 0)

Is there any way I can completely format all of my drive and turn it into one large partition? I haven't found a solution to this particular error here yet, so I thought I'd actually ASK for once