On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: > Just thought I should bring this to the list's attention: > > http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=198&topic_id=2326&mesg_id=2352&page=
Can this have something to do with the nforce (Intel 8x0?) audio chip's inability to do 8-bit mono? (Lowest audio bandwidth supported by the chip is 16-bit stereo if I remember it right from the top of my head here.) Some sound files used in FG models are 8-bit mono. The OSS driver for that chip is not actually OSS-compliant since 8-bit mono is the specified default configuration at OSS initialisation. And I suspect there are more "misfeatures" in the Linux OSS driver for that particular chip. The OSS driver for it doesn't work at all with teamspeak (8-bit mono again) for instance. Methink the driver whisper lies in user space about the card, or at least not tell the whole truth... The ALSA-driver does the job with teamspeak. Without having ivestigated it, I would guess it recalculates an 8-bit mono stream to 16-bit stereo on the fly. And the Windows-driver probably does the same. It's not a bad audio chip really, but it doesn't support low bandwidth sound streams directly so that has to be done in software somewhere, which may be error prone. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
