On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 08:02:40AM +0100, shweg...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Jacob Meuser wrote:
>
> >On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 01:34:40PM +0800, shweg...@gmail.com wrote:
> >>Hello,
> >>I have a macmini ppc (g4) that has the following issue with aucat:
> >>When using aucat -l, the music skips quite often, but if I use
> >>mplayer without aucat as server, it works perfectcly. I must say
> >>that the same issue has mpd, that is, using mpd without aucat as
> >>server, has the same skipping problems, although a little less, so
> >>it seems to be the server mode that causes problems. Everything is
> >>fine on my i386 laptop.
> >>I'v tried renicing to -20 as per man page, but without luck. I've
> >>also tried raising memory settings with sysctl, also without luck.
> >>
> >>Please tell me what other info you need since I'm no expert.
> >>tks
> >
> >a dmesg is *always* helpful with hardware issue.
> >
> >the output of 'audioctl' while you are experiencing problems is probably
> >useful (there's a faq entry for audio issues, btw).
> >
> >did you try running aucat with '-m play'?
> >
> >--
> >jake...@sdf.lonestar.org
> >SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
> >
> >
> Using "aucat -m play -l" has the same issue
> Here is audioctl while running mplayer with audiocat -l:
> (running 4.6 release)
>
> $ audioctl
> name=AOA
> version=
> config=aoa
> encodings=slinear:16,slinear_be:16,slinear_le:16*,ulinear_be:16*,ulinear_le:16*,mulaw:8*,alaw:8*,slinear:8*,ulinear:8*
> properties=full_duplex
> full_duplex=1
> fullduplex=1
> blocksize=8192
hmm, the i2s drivers round the blocksize down:
return size & ~PGOFSET;
maybe try 'aucat -l -b 8192 -z 4096'
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jake...@sdf.lonestar.org
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