On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 01:45:03PM +1300, richardtoo...@paradise.net.nz wrote: > Hi, guys. > > I'm not sure if this is an issue, because the defaults might be best for a > normal/base install, just asking if this is as expected. > > This is my desktop/development box. I've got a snapshot of 30th Jan and a set > of ports from soon after. > > OpenBSD 5.1-beta (GENERIC.MP) #172: Mon Jan 30 16:30:40 MST 2012 > dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP > > Rhythmbox and Gnome mplayer stuttering a bit playing mp3s ... especially if I > Alt-Tab to Firefox & Thunderbird (and do a bit of work in them.) If I remove > hands from keyboard, no stuttering. > > I remembered seeing this post ("important audio settings to test") > > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.tech/27483 > > And the below (from that post) makes my problems go away: > > # sndiod -r 48000 -b 7680 -z 1920 >
Thanks! Have you tried "-b1920 -z480" and "-b3840 -z960", if not, could you try them and see whether they fix audio? If possible, while stuttering occurs could you type: audioctl play.errors and see whether the counter increases during stuttering? thanks! -- Alexandre