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Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 02:24:30 +0100 (BST)
From: Stephen Oxley <so101@york.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: ALSA - new versions (RA problem)
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>Robin Davis <rdavis@zetnet.co.uk>
>
>Hello,
>
>Is anybody having problems with the new driver and playing RA Player
>files. I'm trying the Real Audio Intranet server, and with the previous
>version of alsa everything worked as normal, but with the new one, the
>audio seems choppy and jerky. Not with other sound files though.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Rob

I had exactly the same problem as you when playing real audio files, with
alsa drivers 0.1.4.
My solution was to downgrade to alsa drivers 0.1.3 :-(

I suspect that for some reason the 0.1.4 driver takes up more cpu than
before and since I only have a dx2 66 this puts the cpu usages for ra
files upto 100% (giving choppy sound), whereas before approx 16kbps-25kbps
files took up 60% or so cpu (note: these files are unbearably choppy with
oss-linux/free, one of the many reasons for using alsa.) 

If of course you have a p400 and still have choppy sound this blows my
theory out of the water! 

steve


