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Date:      Mon, 16 Dec 2002 10:25:29 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Orion Hodson <hodson@icir.org>
Cc:        freebsd@fadesa.es, Nicholas Esborn <nick@netdot.net>, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Poor audio quality with festival and hw.snd.pcm0.vchans > 0 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212161023280.11938-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <200212161752.gBGHqvpD037517@puma.icir.org>

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On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Orion Hodson wrote:

> /-- "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= M. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fandi=F1o?=" wrote:
> | Nicholas Esborn wrote:
> | > 
> | > Hello,
> | > 
> | > I've been working with the new vchans on a Toshiba Satellite laptop:
> | > 
> | > pcm0: <OPL3-SAx (YMF719)> at port 0x530-0x537,0x538-0x539,0xf8c-0xf94,0xe0e
> |  irq 5 drq 1 flags 0xc113 on isa0
> | > 
> | > If I turn hw.snd.pcm0.vchans up to 1 or more, festival sounds crackly
> | > and terrible, but oddly, mpg123 sounded fine.  I'm using the festival
> | > freebsd16audio method.  I also tried sun16audio (which didn't work at
> | > all) and sunaudio (which also sounded terrible).
> | > 
> | > Does anyone have any insight to offer?
> | 
> | yes, I'm having the same problem with mplayer and virtual audio channels.
> 
> <snip>
> Comment on the Linux free oss drivers by mplayer folks
> </snip>
> 
> When you next experience this noise can you post the output of:
> 	fstat /dev/audio* /dev/dsp*
> whilst it's being generated.


I think this may be the same problem kmarx (ken marx) is seeing here
with vchan> 1 due to the linear interpolation between sample points..
I think festival produces 8kHz or 16kHz data (can't remember), but the
vchan sampler runs at 44 kHz.


> 
> Cheers
> - Orion
> 
> 
> 
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