Hello all, I have an IBM T22 Thinkpad running OpenBSD 6.1. Recently, I've been trying to play audio on the system but I've run into some trouble.
I'm using mplayer from packages, but when I try to play an audio file the playback is extremely slow and of very poor quality (changing the format of the audio file used does not change this behaviour). However, if I start disk-heavy activity at the same time, such as running 'ncdu' (from packages) or 'find /' then suddenly playback is normal and as expected until mplayer spontaneously catches signal 13 (SIGPIPE according to /usr/include/sys/signal.h). I suspected that this may be due to the disk being very slow so I tried copying the audio file to an mfs mountpoint and playing from there, however this did not cause any difference in behaviour. I also tried changing the sample rate and frequency both in mplayer and with audioctl, but this also failed to solve the issue. Does anyone have any advice on how to resolve this issue? The hardware is 15 years old and it would be nice to get some more use out of it. Thanks, multiplex'd
