On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 06:05:18PM +0100, Thomas Pfaff wrote:
>       On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:41:24 -0400
> Jeff Flowers <[email protected]> wrote:
> > In OpenBSD 4.4, I have noticed that if I launch Firefox when I am
> > already playing an audio CD (cdio) or listening to music (mpg123), the
> > audio will stutter. Usually it will recover and continue normal
> > playback but sometimes it cannot stop stuttering and I have to kill
> > and restart whatever I was listening to. I can't recall ever having
> > this problem in Vista or Linux.
> 
> I have the same problem here, running with or without the aucat
> server.  I've tried setting a large buffer and a high priority
> on the aucat server process to no avail.
> 

what priority / buffer size are you using? does the underrun occur
on the aucat side or on the application side ?

- you can check this by running aucat with AUCAT_DEBUG=2 and if you
  get ``mix_xrun: drop = 0'' messages during stuttering, then the
  application is not providing data fast enough

- if ``audioctl play.errors'' is increasing, then aucat is being
  preempted by other applications.

Oh, last point: a related bug was fixed very recently in aucat, so
check that it's up to date.

-- Alexandre

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