Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:26:45 +0200 From: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <mekanix@privat.dk> To: Rahul Siddharthan <Rahul.Siddharthan@lpt.ens.fr>, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Choosing a soundcard. Message-ID: <20010921142429.QPUH10378.fepC.post.tele.dk@there> In-Reply-To: <20010921120208.C42208@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20010920153041.QSJQ2356.fepF.post.tele.dk@there> <XFMail.20010921121243.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20010921120208.C42208@lpt.ens.fr>
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On Friday 21 September 2001 12:02, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Yes, I have the opposite problem: my sound card accepts only 48000 Hz > and the pcm driver's upsampling of 44100 Hz sound doesn't seem > satisfactory. VLC have the option to choose the output (44k1 vs. 48k) but I couldn't hear any difference. > It's not a scratchy electrical sound though, just a > slight distortion more audible in some kinds of music than in others. > On the other hand, if I try to record from the mic at a frequency > lower than 48000 Hz, I do get a noise exactly like what you describe > (a scratchy electrical sound). Earlier on this list I was told the > distortion may be an issue with the driver for my card (VIA VT82C686A) > but quite definitely it's an issue with the upsampling, so maybe it > affects other cards too. Well I have this with both AOpen AX59Pro (VIA MVP3) and EPoX 8KTA+ (VIA KT133A) and with both SB and EPoX's on board soundchip. And moreover I get it not only with BSD but with Windows as well (eg. Deus Ex in the scenes with speach). So I'm not entirely convinced it's a driver-issue. But if it were, is SB Live (EMU101) better supported with pcm than the cheaper SB PCI XX? > I get around it by playing all my sound through KDE's aRts, which > seems to do the upsampling correctly. But there are other issues with > using aRts on FreeBSD, and besides, not all non-KDE software supports > it (xmms and ogg123 do, though). I haven't tried mplayer. You got aRts working with xmms??? Please mail me a binary!! I haven't been able to get it working here! Bjarne To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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