On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:03:56PM +0100, Robert wrote: > 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.
vlc doesn't like SDL doing resampling. this can be observed by using the audio(4) backend as well (env SDL_AUDIODRIVER=audio vlc). vlc has much better resampling but you have to turn it on in the advanced options of the preferences menu ... or use aucat. > With aucat running all samplerates except 44kHz and 96kHz, play back is > too fast and stutters. (tested bad rates: 8,12,16,32,48kHz) I guess ratchov figured this out but you might get around this by running aucat at 48 kHz. > - Robert > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
