from the quill of Thierry Vignaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on scroll
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> "Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Whenever I play any audio through esound it comes out but it clicks
> and
> > pops. If I revert the tool (xmms, mgp123, ogg123) to using OSS or
> ALSA
> > directly the clicks and pops go away.
> >
> > Any ideas why this is?
> esd doesn't support alsa :-(
No, esd doesn't. But bear in mind that I am running the OSS shims on
ALSA. I can successfully use tools via the OSS compatibility modules
(i.e., xmms, mpg123 and ogg123 opening /dev/dsp directly) and things
sound fine. Why should esd opening and using /dev/dsp be any worse?
Hacking esd to support alsa directly sounds like a worthy project.
Maybe I will get cracking on it next week.
Any further thoughts on why esd should perform worse than other tools
using the ALSA OSS modules?
b.
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Brian J. Murrell
