Hi, On 25/10/2007, Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I have a HP Pavilion dv8000 too and, after install 4.2, i go back to > 4.1. The audio on vlc, xine, xmms sounds too fast and cut from time to > time (5-6 sec intervals)....even playing internet radio....and the HD > access sucks.
Ok, I'm no expert, but heres my understanding of this: What is the native sample rate of the sound card? Most things are encoded for 44,100. A lot of cheap sound cards use 48,000, which results in the audio sounding too fast. ---8<--- audioctl -a | grep rate play.rate=44100 ---8<--- You can try changing this variable, but a lot of soundcards don't let you. If this is the case, then you need to find a player, which can re-sample the audio to the rate of your sound card (mplayer will), but alas, you might end up with a less preffered player. The other thing that causes fast playback, is mono audio files. This effectively halves the sample rate of the file(?). Some operating systems re-sample this stuff in-kernel. OpenBSD does not. This is why I made sure I had a good quality sound card for use with OpenBSD. -- Best Regards Edd --------------------------------------------------- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett
