Re: [Plib-devel] Problems with sound under Windows XP.

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Wolfram Kuss wrote:
> FWIW, there was a thread "Error in SlDSP" started on 12.3.2002 about
> this.It seems it is a timing issue with some sound cards.

Aha!

> From: Paul Deppe <paul@ve...>
> RE: Error in SlDSP  
> 2002-03-12 10:43
> 
>  > When running the PLIB/SL example programs on Cygwin/Win2k, I get
>  > the following error:
>  >
>  > WARNING: SlDSP: Cannot perform this operation while media data is
>  > still playing.
>  >   Reset the device, or wait until the data is finished playing. (33)
>  >
>  > ...and the sound stops playing.  Ctrl-C is needed to abort the program.
>  >
>  > Therer are no other programs running at the time.  I have played
>  > with the settings for my sound driver (i.e. turned off HW
>  > acceleration, etc.), but the error still occurs.  Interestingly
>  > the error still occurs with all sounds muted.
>  >
>  > Does anyone else see this error on their Windoze or other system?
>  
>  More info:  The example program runs fine on my older PC with a
>  SoundBlaster-compatible sound card.  It does not work on my Dell 8100 Laptop
>  with ESS Maestro PCI Audio.
>  
>  The symptoms are these:  After running ./example.exe from the Cygwin command
>  line, the WARNING message (see above) appears and the first sound plays 3
>  1/2 times, then stops.  The same thing happens with mod_demo.exe, only a few
>  seconds of music are played.
>  
>  I am trying to track this down with gdb but am not very familiar with sound
>  card programming on Windoze (yet!) so if anyone has any ideas I"m all ears.
>  
>  Thanks,
>  
>  Paul

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