no sound playing DVDs - solved (sort of)

Hi,
   I wrote in the other day about a problem with new versions of xine
not providing sound when playing DVDs. This was happening on multiple
Gentoo machines. The initial fix was to make sure I set the Gentoo USE
flags a52 and dts. At that point I got sound on one machine, but as it
turns out I didn't get sound on a second machine.

   This evening I discovered the root cause of the problem. xine is
producing sound but this revision of xine is sending the sound to a
different device. The machine in question has two cards:

dragonfly ~ # cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [ICH5           ]: ICH4 - Intel ICH5
                      Intel ICH5 with ALC655 at 0xfa081000, irq 21
 1 [default        ]: USB-Audio - USB Audio CODEC
                      Burr-Brown from TI               USB Audio CODEC
 at usb-0000:00:1d.1-1, full s
dragonfly ~ #

   In a complete change to previous versions I find that xine is now
sending sound to the USB-Audio device and not the PC's ICH5 sound
card.

   It's possible that maybe some Alsa change recently marked the USB
device as default. If that happened I don't know when the change
occurred.

   Anyway, how do I tell xine to use card 0 instead of card 1? I don't
seem to see how to do that reading xine --help.

Thanks,
Mark

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