Re: [xine-user] Xine 0.9.8 sound problem

[Matthew W. <mx...@cs...>]

This may be a silly idea, but I've sometimes had distortion problems
which I solved by turning down the output volume of my soundcard and
turning up the speakers to compensate...

On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 23:20, Ken Arromdee wrote:
> I finally got an Alsa developer to figure out what was wrong with my sound
> card's driver, so my card now mostly works in Alsa 0.9 (except for mpu401
> midi, which isn't relevant here).  Which means that for the first time I can
> try Alsa 0.9 with Xine.
> 
> Alas, the hope that I'd avoid the sound problem I got with 0.5 was wrong.  It
> still happens.  Loud voices give a split second burst of buzz/static when
> they're at their loudest.  The effect is most noticeable on DVDs.  It mostly
> goes away if I force the sample rate to 24000 instead of 48000; I have no idea
> why.
> 
> My system is an Athlon 850, a Matrox G400, and an obscure AD1816a based sound
> card.  I'm running Mandrake 8.0.