[IMPORTANT] SOUND!!!!

[Geert Janssens]

Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Am 08.01.05 21:01 schrieb(en) Owen Stampflee:
> 
>> So, I'm trying to fix all the outstanding bugs in YDL4 so we have a
>> beautiful base for YDL4.1 which will be a bug fix/minor feature creep
>> release...
> 
> 
> Cool!! Does this include new rpm's for gcc, ddd, gdb, xorg, ..., too?
> 
>> So what works better? Alsa or OSS?
> 
> 
> OSS (dmasound_pmac, dmasound_core, etc) works fine.
> Alsa doesn't work well for me - it "clicks" ~ every second when using 
> e.g.  xmms and looses the stream under heavy load a lot faster than oss.
> 
If you're interested in alsa, I got rid of the clicks in xmms by 
increasing the Buffer (to 3000) and Period (to 500) in the alsa output 
plugin configuration. I also enabled Mmap mode.

Credits go to Dr. J. E. Sacco. I believe he was the first to mention 
this trick.

Cheers,

Geert Jan