Thanks for the tips, Frank. Works your way (and I'm much happier with that!)
> Actually, this last paragraph really did. I was having the same problem > here > (with the speed). By increasing the period, the speed went (close) to > normal. > But I get the same "clicks" that you do (with waves, too). Running with > the > OSS emulation, it sounds fine. > Yes. I discovered that after posting my fix. As far as mp3-playing is concerned, I don't much care what driver is used, but as I do audio editing and so on on this machine, I have wanted alsa running for lower latency. > So, I tried to increase the period. At 100ms, the sound is perfect. The > size > of the buffer doesn't really matter (though I can't keep it configured > below > 200ms -- it keeps getting reset to 200). What really odd is that at 80 and > 90ms, the audio will skip. It gets hung up at one place and repeats a very > short section. > I found that it skips above 100ms, too.. Hm. That's probably an xmms-alsa thing. > I wonder if this is the ALSA drivers or XMMS. For mp3 playing, I've only > tried > it with xmms. > > What's your sound chip, BTW? I have an original iBook using the powermac > DACA > driver. It's an iBook late 2001 (keywest/tumbler) Chris
