Re: [xine-user] Sound stutter when playing movies

[Michael R. <mr...@us...>]

Hi Erik,

> >>When playing movies with xine, I'm experiencing a sound stutter
> >> every second or two. Each sound stutter is accompanied by an
> >> output message which has the following form:
> >>
> >>"audio_out: inserting 4040 0-frames to fill a gap of 7578 pts",
> >>
> >>where the number of frames and pts vary slightly.
> >
> >Since these messages come in quite regularly, I would assume a wrong
> >samplerate. What soundcard do you have and what sampling frequencies
> >does it support?
>
> Thanks for your reply Michael,
>
> The sound stutter occurs in the same way on two different machines
> having different sound cards :
> The two sound cards are:
> - SoundBlaster AWE64 (PCI)
> - AC 97 Audio Controller (on a ASUS A7VC motherboard).

Wow, that is strange. So sampling frequency is unlikely to be the cause.
What audio output plugin do these machines use?

Thanks to guenter, this problem is now a FAQ entry, which could be of 
interest for you:
http://xine.sourceforge.net/guenter/faq.html#AEN343

Michael

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