Hi! On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 06:18:20PM +0100, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: >On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 05:53:42PM +0100, Andreas Bartelt wrote: >> Alexandre Ratchov wrote: >>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 07:55:59AM +0100, Andreas Bartelt wrote: >>>> I've updated my systems to CURRENT on Dec, 7th. Since then, I'm >>>> experiencing problems with mplayer audio and video playback on one of >>>> my boxes (audio and video stutters about every 5 seconds). Could >>>> this be caused by the libsndio related changes which have been >>>> committed to the mplayer port about one month ago?
>>> does it happen both with and without "aucat -l" running? >> with "aucat -l" running, there are no problems with mplayer/libsndio. >> Perhaps I did miss something in the last weeks -- will there be an aucat >> daemon in the future which should run by default in order to handle >> audio? >yes i hope this will be possible. First we have to update all ports >to use libsndio, because while aucat is running, programs trying to >open directly /dev/audio will fail with "Device busy". Couldn't aucat free the sound device after some idle time (and re-open when needed), just like esd or arts do it? Then it could co-habitate a bit better with applications that do not use aucat. >[...] Kind regards, Hannah.
