Re: Plea to help save me from Windows !!!

[Bruce Paterson <bruce@tele-ip.com>]

Thanks for your reply Daniel.

Daniel Haus wrote:
>>Behaviour:
>>The output sound is perfect for about 2 minutes. After that every now 
>>and then I get "distortion" in the audio. No xruns or errors are 
>>reported in the software. It sounds like only part of the output buffer 
>>is correct (the general gist is right, but there's crap and warbles 
>>there as well).
> 
> 
> this might not be caused by your app, this could be an alsa-problem.

The reason I thought it was my app was playing wave files over & over 
using aplay didn't result in the problem. It's possible aplay is using 
the interface in a different way (for instance I'd imagine it uses the 
plughw interface).
It's a scientific application that cannot allow distortion, or even 
xruns to occur at all (every sample is critical).

> i experienced such problems, too (i am using cs46xx). usually i am
> runnigng xmms (with alsa-plugin) when it happens. i get a very "thin" 
> sound - very little bass, volume goes down and i get some distortion.
> alltogether it sounds like my speakers would be broken (they aren't,
> really!).
> i did not do any more testing, but about 24 hours ago i upgraded to
> 0.9.0-rc6 and had no problems since then, but that might not mean
> anything ...

I didn't even know there was an rc6 !  Normally they get announced on 
the list. Must have missed it.
Can anyone in the know shed some light as to whether rc6 changes are 
likely to help ?
-- 
Cheers,
Bruce
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