Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:47:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> To: Lee Cremeans <lcremeans@erols.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newpcm and RealPlayer woes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007111040580.49164-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca> In-Reply-To: <20000711044014.A8062@lcremeans.erols.com>
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On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Lee Cremeans wrote:
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: I've been using the newpcm drivers for some time, and they seem to work with
: most things, but I've noticed some problems, specifically with the
: RealPlayer 7 Beta for linux. The sound seems to jump at the beginning of a
: stream, leaving it at least 3-4 seconds behind the counter and any video
: content. This makes video streams hard to watch, and also cuts off local
: streams early. Also, on remote streams, the sound clicks and squeals loudly
: about 1-2 seconds into the stream, and the stream stays out of sync with the
: RealPlayer counter the whole time. I have a PR open on this, misc/18728.
Hmm.. I never noticed it before, but it would appear that I have the same
problem. Though it MAY just be the stream, I only tried with two *remote*
streams as I have no local ones to test. I found that video content was
about 4 seconds behind the audio content..
I do not have any of the 'weird sound' problem though. I did through XMMS
but their new version fixed that out. Similar problems occured with things
that used certain mixers. I believe this was an issue of the *program* not
the OS. Either way, xmms 1.2.x fixed it.
: All of this seems to have started happening around the time of the May 12
: MFC, it looks like. I don't know enough about how newpcm works to be able to
: offer any advice on fixing the code, but I'd be willing to take a look at it
: in my spare time, and I can try any patches someone can come up with. I have
: my dmesg pasted below; this is from -STABLE CVSupped Sunday night.
My CVSup last was May 30 2000.
: -lee
I've attached my dmesg incase there are some similarities.
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FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #0: Mon Jul 3 00:26:07 EDT 2000
root@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca:/opt/FreeBSD-src/sys/compile/EPSILON
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 400910368 Hz
CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (400.91-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x660 Stepping = 0
Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR>
real memory = 268369920 (262080K bytes)
avail memory = 258084864 (252036K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc02ba000.
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcib0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
pcib1: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
pci1: <Matrox MGA G200 AGP graphics accelerator> at 0.0 irq 11
isab0: <Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller> port 0xf000-0xf00f at device 7.1 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
pci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> at 7.2 irq 10
chip1: <Intel 82371AB Power management controller> port 0x5000-0x500f at device 7.3 on pci0
xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xe400-0xe47f mem 0xea000000-0xea00007f irq 10 at device 11.0 on pci0
xl0: Ethernet address: 00:10:4b:0f:e6:b6
miibus0: <MII bus> on xl0
xlphy0: <3Com internal media interface> on miibus0
xlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
sc0: <System console> on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x200>
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/16 bytes threshold
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
sbc0: <Creative ViBRA16C> at port 0x220-0x22f,0x330-0x331,0x388-0x38b irq 5 drq 1,5 on isa0
sbc0: setting card to irq 5, drq 1, 5
pcm0: <SB DSP 4.13> on sbc0
unknown0: <Game> at port 0x200-0x207 on isa0
IP packet filtering initialized, divert disabled, rule-based forwarding disabled, default to accept, logging disabled
ad0: 8063MB <WDC AC38400L> [16383/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33
ad1: 8063MB <QUANTUM FIREBALL CR8.4A> [16383/16/63] at ata0-slave using UDMA33
acd0: CDROM <MATSHITA CR-589> at ata1-master using PIO4
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
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