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Date:      Mon, 07 Jan 2002 04:20:14 -0800
From:      Orion Hodson <hodson@icir.org>
To:        Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: " Audio plays 16% fast in xmms, freeamp, realplay (Compaq,  FreeBSD-4.4) "
Message-ID:  <200201071220.g07CKE992352@mule.icir.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of 04 Jan 2002 17:06:55 -0500 

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In message <871yh56a9s.fsf@thanatos.shenton.org>,Chris Shenton writes:
> At work I was given a Compaq 1.5GHz box, upon which I installed
> FreeBSD-4.4 with no problems.  I can play CDs through its sound card
> no problem.
> 
> But when I play local or remote mp3  and remote streems (e.g. the Ogg
> Vorbis stream from BBC) it plays about 16% too fast.  Sounds like
> chipmonks on speed.  
> 
> Since all three of these programs are playing fast, I'm guessing that
> the players may be guessing the CPU speed in order to determine the
> proper play-out rate for the digital stream, but it's just a guess.  

How about posting a dmesg so we can tell what soundcard you are referring to?

If it's an ich controller, this problem is now detected and fixed in -stable 
and will appear in the 4.5R that's due later this month.

Kind Regards
- Orion



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