Regarding Audio speedup problem
Terry Cole
sdoradus at maths.otago.ac.nz
Sun Nov 16 23:31:48 UTC 2003
Dear List,
Regarding Justin's audio speedup problem (On Sunday 16 November 2003
02:34, Justin Georgeson wrote:)
>> I think this is more specifically related to samba 3.0+ than it is to
>> fedora, but I figure this is as good a place as any to start. I've
>> noticed that when either the server or client host is Fedora (including
>> the beta release, all the way up to Yarrow) listening to MP3 files in
>> xmms and watching video files in gmplayer, the audio and video is played
>> at about 2x speed. Has anyone else noticed anything remotely like this?
>> It's really annoying.
>
To which Andy Green responded:
>Today's Topics:
>
>...
> 16. Re: audio/video over smbfs mounts (Andy Green)
>...
>Nope... very very hard to see how this can be Samba...
>
Indeed.
>Sounds more like the kernel timer is set wrong on your machine, or there is a
>problem with the audio device clock rate?
>...
I'll bet the answer lies with the default sound library being alsa9. To
test this, use gmplayer but invoke it for the OSS or SDL libraries, like
this:
"gmplayer -ao sdl ..."
I'll also bet the problem exists for playback of files but not of media
like dvd, vcd, or cdda.
Regards, TC
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