Subject: Re: Ensoniq Audio PCI
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.yi.org>
List: current-users
Date: 07/01/2001 16:34:04
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> I have the same problem when listening live audio from realplayer.
> I don't know if this is realplayer or the driver's fault.
> This seems to happen under heavy disk I/O only. Maybe it's related to
> interrupt latency, maybe it's realplayer that can't write fast enouth
> to the device and loose sync.

A big "me too", and I also have an AudioPCI (Creative Labs SB64 PCI,
ES1370). Playback from the local disk works great with RealPlayer, it's
just the streaming stuff that blows up. I figured it was a bug with Linux
emulation or threads or something, but what do I know :)

Jared