On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 07:15:46PM +0300, Rares Aioanei wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> I have an audio biggie with my old laptop, which can't seem to play
> audio (mp3,ogg) or video (the sound part) (flv) with mplayer ,
> mpg321 , xmms or mp3blaster. The sound is choppy, all I get is
> noise. From what I've read (google) there were some issues of the
> kind a few years ago, but no recent problem reports similar to mine
> exist. I start aucat as root with "nice -n 20 aucat -l -b 7000 -m
^^^^^^^^^^
this should be 'nice -n -20 ... ', anyway this is not necessary any
longer aucat cranks its priority.
> play -f /dev/audio0" then "mplayer (or other players) <filename>"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
should be -fsun:0
> . I searched the misc@ archives to no end.
>
> Even if I start aucat only with the -l flag (without the other
> options), the result is the same. The CPU load does not spike while
> playing, nor after. I've played audio/video on this machine in the
> past without issues, even though it's somewhat underpowered. Here's
> the dmesg and sorry if I wasn't clear enough.
does it work without aucat?
If it doesn't, what do successive invocations of ``audioctl'' display
during playback?
-- Alexandre
