On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 01:45:03PM +1300, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi, guys.
>
> I'm not sure if this is an issue, because the defaults might be best for a
> normal/base install, just asking if this is as expected.
>
> This is my desktop/development box. I've got a snapshot of 30th Jan and a set
> of ports from soon after.
>
> OpenBSD 5.1-beta (GENERIC.MP) #172: Mon Jan 30 16:30:40 MST 2012
> [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP
>
> Rhythmbox and Gnome mplayer stuttering a bit playing mp3s ... especially if I
> Alt-Tab to Firefox & Thunderbird (and do a bit of work in them.) If I remove
> hands from keyboard, no stuttering.
>
> I remembered seeing this post ("important audio settings to test")
>
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.tech/27483
>
> And the below (from that post) makes my problems go away:
>
> # sndiod -r 48000 -b 7680 -z 1920
>
Thanks! Have you tried "-b1920 -z480" and "-b3840 -z960", if not,
could you try them and see whether they fix audio?
If possible, while stuttering occurs could you type:
audioctl play.errors
and see whether the counter increases during stuttering?
thanks!
-- Alexandre
