On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:12:55 +0000 Jacob Meuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > perhaps some of you have noticed a new sound library has come to > base (sio_open(3)), and aucat(1) can act as a sound server. > > this makes SDL use the new library by default (if SDL_SUDIODRIVER is > not set in the environment, or you can explicitly set > SDL_AUDIODRIVER=libsndio). > > playing games is fun testing ;) > > if you use the aucat server, you may want to start it like > $ aucat -b 16384 -l (or even -b 8192 if you have a "faster" machine) > or you might have a longer than desired latency between seeing things > happen and hearing the associated sound. > > some things are much better for me with this than the current > audio(4), backend, such as quake2 on an azalia(4) that has limited > sample rates. > Tested with vlc on Thinkpad X200/amd64. Without aucat running, everything at 44,48,96kHz works fine. Below that the sound is too fast and stutters. With aucat running all samplerates except 44kHz and 96kHz, play back is too fast and stutters. (tested bad rates: 8,12,16,32,48kHz) - Robert
