Re: via82cxxx_audio problems

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Tue Nov 13 2001 - 07:17:19 EST


Marcelo Borges Ribeiro wrote:
>
> The problem with via82xx is that it is locked in 48000Hz (you can see this
> in dmesg) and cannot play in any other rate. With mplayer you can see
> messages such as requested 16000Hz got (480000) that explains why it sounds
> like chip'n'dale ;-). P.s. I don´t know why it works with xmms but with
> mpg123 it refuses to play at all becouse these sound rates.

This is not a problem but a limitation of the hardware... some software
(including ALSA kernel drivers and xmms) will perform software rate
conversion.

If your audio sounds like chip-n-dales, your audio software does not
support hardware with locked codec rates, or you did not set it up to do
so.

        Jeff

-- 
Jeff Garzik      | Only so many songs can be sung
Building 1024    | with two lips, two lungs, and one tongue.
MandrakeSoft     |         - nomeansno

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Nov 15 2001 - 21:00:34 EST