On Sat, Dec 27, 2025 at 07:43:27PM -0600, joshua stein wrote: > On Sat, 27 Dec 2025 at 19:33:33 -0500, Josh Rickmar wrote: > > I just picked up this audio interface for some recording tasks, and > > gave it a spin on OpenBSD. Unfortunately, playback through the > > headphone outputs is unusable due to frequent interface resets. > > > > When I open a file in VLC, unless audio was already playing, the > > device is currently stopped, and takes a couple seconds before I hear > > the relays in the device click and then I can hear the playback. When > > I pause the playback in VLC, the device stops, and resuming playback > > must start the device again (with playback only heard after another > > couple seconds). > > > > If I keep another file playing in a second VLC instance, I can pause > > and unpause the first VLC without any resets/stuttering. > > > > aucat has the same behavior when nothing else is currently playing > > audio. I don't hear the first few seconds of the WAV file until the > > device has finished starting. > > Does it help if you use sndiod's -a flag? > > -a flag > Control whether sndiod opens the audio device or the MIDI port > only when needed or keeps it open all the time. If the flag is > on then the audio device or MIDI port is kept open all the time, > ensuring no other program can steal it. If the flag is off, then > it's automatically closed, allowing other programs to have direct > access to the audio device, or the device to be disconnected. > The default is off.
Completely glazed over this while reading the sndiod manual, but no, same behavior as described before.
