On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:40:27 +0200 Alexandre Ratchov <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 07:15:46PM +0300, Rares Aioanei wrote: > > Hi , > > > > I have an audio biggie with my old laptop, which can't seem to play > > audio (mp3,ogg) or video (the sound part) (flv) with mplayer , > > mpg321 , xmms or mp3blaster. The sound is choppy, all I get is > > noise. From what I've read (google) there were some issues of the > > kind a few years ago, but no recent problem reports similar to mine > > exist. I start aucat as root with "nice -n 20 aucat -l -b 7000 -m > ^^^^^^^^^^ > > this should be 'nice -n -20 ... ', anyway this is not necessary any > longer aucat cranks its priority. Yes, typo. > > > play -f /dev/audio0" then "mplayer (or other players) <filename>" > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > should be -fsun:0 Changed it. > > > . I searched the misc@ archives to no end. > > > > Even if I start aucat only with the -l flag (without the other > > options), the result is the same. The CPU load does not spike while > > playing, nor after. I've played audio/video on this machine in the > > past without issues, even though it's somewhat underpowered. Here's > > the dmesg and sorry if I wasn't clear enough. > > does it work without aucat? Nope. > > If it doesn't, what do successive invocations of ``audioctl'' display > during playback? > name=CS4280 version= config=cs4280 encodings=ulinear:8:1:1,mulaw:8:1:1*,alaw:8:1:1*,slinear:8:1:1,slinear_le:16:2:1,ulinear_le:16:2:1,slinear_be:16:2:1,ulinear_be:16:2:1 properties=full_duplex,independent full_duplex=0 fullduplex=0 blocksize=2048 hiwat=25 lowat=24 output_muted=0 monitor_gain=0 mode=play play.rate=44100 play.sample_rate=44100 play.channels=2 play.precision=16 play.bps=2 play.msb=1 play.encoding=slinear_le play.gain=255 play.balance=32 play.port=0x0 play.avail_ports=0x0 play.seek=49152 play.samples=5545984 play.eof=0 play.pause=0 play.error=0 play.waiting=0 play.open=1 play.active=1 play.buffer_size=65536 play.block_size=2048 play.errors=0 record.rate=48000 record.sample_rate=48000 record.channels=2 record.precision=16 record.bps=2 record.msb=1 record.encoding=slinear_le record.gain=191 record.balance=32 record.port=0x1 record.avail_ports=0x7 record.seek=0 record.samples=0 record.eof=0 record.pause=0 record.error=0 record.waiting=0 record.open=0 record.active=0 record.buffer_size=65536 record.block_size=8192 record.errors=0 And a diff between two consecutive audioctl's : 25,26c25,26 < play.seek=49152 < play.samples=5545984 --- > play.seek=47104 > play.samples=5748736 > -- Alexandre > -- Rares Aioanei
