Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 17:53:02 -0600 (CST) From: John Utz <john@utzweb.net> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: "Adam D. Gorski" <agorski@engin.umich.edu>, <freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SB problem (was: Cat'ing /dev/audio) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203291744280.11448-100000@jupiter.linuxengine.net> In-Reply-To: <20020330004107.B88610@lpt.ens.fr>
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hi rahul On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > John Utz said on Mar 29, 2002 at 17:33:07: > > i have a minor ahah here..... > > > > > in make.conf I have the following (relevant) lines: > > > > > > CPUTYPE= p2 > > > > i think you should try not using p2 > > > > > CFLAGS= -O -pipe > > > > i usually hack this to -O2 > > On a PII-450 MHz, all these things should absolutely not be an issue > at all. You should get perfectly good output without any > optimisation. Moreover, if the machine is too slow the output will > be jerky and discontinuous, but it won't have the sort of noise Adam > describes. i agree that -O2 shouldnt be an issue given the circumstances. i agree that the if it where required, the failure mode would be as you suggest. i included that as a by the way, but i didnt make that clear. i would also concede that your suggestion that the problem is a sampling rate problem is possible. because it would be concievable that linux/alsa might have a more sophisticated approach to automagically resampling things. *but*, i simply dont run into content that has been sampled that way! i havent ever run into stuff that i cant play via xmms on my 4.5 box. evidently that isnt the case for you. my current supposition is a math error, because i know that gcc with the more specialized cpu architecture setups isnt particularly well tested, and it's tested even less on freebsd! furthermore, preparing oggs and mp3's for play is a math intensive process, so any goof ups in the math code would be painfully evident. but, i am guessing. > Rahul > -- John L. Utz III john@utzweb.net Idiocy is the Impulse Function in the Convolution of Life To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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