On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 12:40:51AM +1000, Ahmad M. Afuni wrote:
> Now, sometimes when I run, for example mplayer, or any audio-requiring
> program, it would work fine for a while but then at some point start
> becoming choppy. (That is, the Audio would have gaps in it and sound a
> little distorted)
> Shutting the application and starting it up again would fix the
> issue, however.
> Has anyone experienced anything like this? Any clue what it might be /
> what might be causing it?

I run into this on uniprocessor under 3.x with both yds(4) and
previously the auvia(4) device it replaced.  it's a buffer
synchronization issue.  I can force it on my machine by suspending
(SIGSTOP, ^Z) and then starting (SIGCONT) an audio process.  depending
on the buffer states when the process was suspended, it may start back
up in an "off-by-one" state.

as a workaround, pause and start may reset the buffer and get things
going again.

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