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On Sunday 05 June 2005 16:51, Lee Revell wrote:
> Well, that would be a broken design anyway.  That's what the ALSA timer
> API is for.  But XMMS has a long history of buggy ALSA support anyway.
>

I am not sure they use gettimeofday(). Pardon my ignorance but why is it 
broken for them to use gettimeofday()?

> Do you get the same result with native OSS, ALSA OSS emulation, and
> native ALSA?

I am not sure about OSS and ALSA OSS emulation but I tried XMMS with ALSA 
output plugin and Juk and amaroK with GStreamer/alsasink. All of them have 
the same problem.

Parag