Thank you Andreas for the information. My issue was not with the normal or test builds but the build from SVN and that still does not work ( Now at r67008 ). I used to be able to build with audio_stable but since that was removed approx 8 months ago sound just does not work. Skips and the logs with audio debug are full of errors about stream being full expect skipping.

Perry


On 05/24/2017 12:53 PM, Andreas Löffler wrote:
Hello Perry/all,

just wanted to let you know that there's a new 5.1 test build [1] r115730 which should have audio improvements regarding HDA emulation in combination with Windows 10 AU (Anniversary Update) + CU (Creators Update) guests.

Happy testing,
Andreas

[1] https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds



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On 27.04.2017 14:16, Perry Halbert wrote:
Good day Frank,


I too was surprised that there was an improvement. I look at the changes
and didn't really see any audio areas specifically worked on so I
calculated that the timing or buffers had been changed in some way on
the host side code.  To tell you the truth it always looked like a
buffer issue to me. Anyway it had improved for me for several days and
not anything that I have done, but today it is back to the same old ways
of the stuttering and audio out of sync with the video plus the whole
video skips ahead a second so even the video is jumpy.

I will continue to monitor this and let you know what I find, maybe not
right away this time.

Best regards,
Perry


On 04/27/2017 02:30 AM, Frank Mehnert wrote:
Hi Perry,

On Freitag, 21. April 2017 11:02:33 CEST Perry Halbert wrote:
As of today r66644 from SVN, audio is much improved but not fixed yet.
The stutter is improved but now there are popping issues. The
additional logging shows a greatly reduced amount of the stuttering due
to stream full but they still happen.

Host Linux 64-bit guest Mint-17 64-bit and tried both ac97 and intel hd audio. I sounds like the intel hd audio might be better than the ac97 to
my ears but can not provide empirical data to support the assumption.

I don't do a lot with Windows these days but it appears that the audio
in a Win-7 guest has been acceptable all along if that is of interest to
you.
thank you for testing. Some status update regarding sound in trunk and in the
5.1.x branch:

At the moment the code between trunk and 5.1 drifts away a little bit. In principle trunk has the more modern audio framework, in particular it moves more audio work from the EM threads (the VCPU emulation threads) to separate threads. This is good for the timing and therefore good for audio quality.
Trunk audio didn't change for some weeks (it still needs improvements),
therefore we are slightly surprised that you experience improvements with the latest trunk updates. I'm also not aware of any recent VMM updates which
would improve timing...

The 5.1.x branch still uses quite old audio code. We don't want to do
fundamental changes in 5.1.x but we need to fix certain cases. Especially we are aware that Windows 10 AU guests don't work well with 5.1.x (including 5.1.20). Unfortunately fixing this is more complicated and conflicts with our goal to keep the changes in 5.1.x minimal. I can only say that we are trying to improve the situation with Windows 10 AU+ guests but we still don't
have a final solution.

Kind regards,

Frank



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