Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 17:15:49 -0500 From: Matthew Fuller <fullermd@linkfast.net> To: Lee Cremeans <lcremeans@erols.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newpcm and RealPlayer woes Message-ID: <20000711171549.A3929@linkfast.net> In-Reply-To: <20000711044014.A8062@lcremeans.erols.com>; from lcremeans@erols.com on Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 04:40:14AM -0400 References: <20000711044014.A8062@lcremeans.erols.com>
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On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 04:40:14AM -0400, a little birdie told me that Lee Cremeans remarked > 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. > > 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. FWIW, I've had this same problem with -CURRENT for a long time (since maybe Septemer of last year, give or take, I'm not exactly sure). It lags several seconds with Realplayer, does the same with mtv[p] (gr, need a good MPEG A/V player), BUT stays nicely in sync with .avi's through xanim, and doesn't have near as much lag with XMMS (still .5-1 sec though). pcm0: <CS423x> at port 0x534-0x537,0x388-0x38b,0x220-0x22f irq 5 drq 1,0 on isa0 -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@linkfast.net Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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