Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 22:57:18 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Danny J. Mitzel" <mitzel@Ipsilon.COM> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: does anyone get ``good'' audio quality with VAT and SoundBlaster? Message-ID: <199603070657.WAA10461@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Mar 1996 21:37:59 PST." <199603070536.VAA03658@mailhost.Ipsilon.COM>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Use FreeBSD Lounge to troubleshoot the quality of your hardware and
vat.
For instance someone can volunteer to send a test sound stream.
Typically, I test the system here locally and then go on to mbone broadcasts.
Enjoy,
Amancio
>>> "Danny J. Mitzel" said:
> I spent a bit of time setting up a local FreeBSD machine this week to
> try and tune into the IETF broadcasts, but have been very disappointed
> with the audio quality. I expected a lot of ``popping'' which I've read
> others complaining about with VAT and SoundBlaster, but there were many
> long periods of time where audio was too garbled to distinguish. the
> VAT broadcast must not have been using RTP because it could not display
> loss%, but the accompanying video only report ~1-5% loss, so I don't think
> that should be a problem. does anyone know if it's possible to get any
> use out of the SoundBlaster with VAT and I just need to keep tweaking,
> or should I just give up and see if I can swing a GUS board that everyone
> else seems to be gravitating towards?
>
> system vitals: Pentium 133MHz, endeavor motherboard with onboard SoundBlaste
r,
> 16MB memory, FreeBSD-2.1.0R, VoxWare Sound Driver:3.0-beta-950506,
> VAT 4.0a6.
>
> thanks for any info.
> danny
>
>
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199603070657.WAA10461>