On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 06:25:11PM +0100, Alexandre Ratchov wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:14:29AM -0500, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 01:37:27AM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 05:23:09PM -0500, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I'm running
> > > > 
> > > > OpenBSD paranoiac.blackhelicopters.org 4.5 GENERIC.MP#82 i386
> > > > 
> > > > on a Toshiba Satellite P105-S6179.  Fresh install, not an upgrade.
> > > > Widescreen works beautifully with 915resolution package, ACPI made the
> > > > fan start when necessary, everything seems good... except sound.
> > > > 
> > > > MP3 playback is fast.  Not terribly fast, just a little bit fast.  My
> > > > VNV Nation sounds like they've taken a little bit too much speed, and
> > > > John Fogerty sounds like he's been kicked in the fork.  Everything is
> > > > understandable, but just that little bit too fast.
> > > > 
> > > > I've solved any number of "no sound" problems, but this is a new one.
> > > > The archives include reports of this issue years ago, but nothing
> > > > current.  Any suggestions?
> > > 
> > > what applications are playing too fast?  that's far more iportant than
> > > who's voice sounds like what.  it sounds like 44.1kHz media being played
> > > at 48kHz.  there are suggestions in tha FAQ.
> > 
> > You're right, thank you.
> > 
> > The rest is mostly for the archives:
> > 
> > mpg123 reports 44.1kHz media and the azalia0 sound card reports
> > play.rate=48000.  (I have hundreds of gigs of MP3s at 44.1kHz, so I'm
> > not about to start over from that end.  :-)
> > 
> > Changing play.rate to 44100 doesn't work, and the archives show it
> > won't with an azalia sound card.
> > 
> > Madplay does work correctly, though.  And I can use madplay as an
> > input engine for XMMS through audio/xmms-madplay.  It looks like
> > audacious is a better choice, however, as xmms is slowly dying.
> > 
> > And the end result is:
> > 
> > audacious plays everything fine.  The volume control doesn't seem to
> > work, but I have a physical volume dial.
> > 
> 
> You can use aucat(1) in server mode (aucat -l). It will do all the
> necessary conversions on the fly. It's supposed to be transparent.
> Check the ``server mode'' section of aucat(1)
> 
> Not all audio applications are upated to use it, mpg123 and xmms
> (and a lot other apps) can use it.

Thank you, this works perfectly.

While audacious works, it uses about 25% of one CPU.  The
visualization is just slow enough to be distracting.  Open up the
preferences, and the sound skips.  I think I'll stick with "old but
works."

==ml

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Michael W. Lucas        [email protected], [email protected]
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  the pessimists." -- Jean Rostand, French biologist and philosopher

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