[plug] realplayer and via onboard audio

[John Knight]

I have a VIA Apollo MVP3G2 Super Socket 7 board with a SB Live! Value and I 
get a sharp crackle whenever I start playing, but it ends quickly (within 2 
seconds or so) and then the audio returns to normal.

Do you think that this would be in the same league?
anarchist tomato

>
>Hi
>Quick question: anyone know why I get awful garbage audio (not static,
>vaguely resembles original amped up and filtered for more distortion than 
>any
>human can fully comprehend) from RealPlayer? Even their "welcome" sound 
>does
>it. XMMS, esdplay, play, mpg123/321, etc are all fine. RealPlayer doesn't
>even do the same thing every time. Realplayer works on my home machine (sb
>live) also running sid and with a similar config.
>
>When playing through ESD, the sound gets "crunched" into a smaller 
>timeframe
>sometimes, while other bits stretch out or repeat a tiny fragment so it
>"buzzes". Sometimes it works. Sometimes it starts/finishes partway through.
>But its a lot more intelligible than without esd.
>
>Ideas anybody?
>
>I'd love to use anything else but realplayer (something that says "whoops
>cant open /dev/dsp" instead of "I'll freeze 'till you kill -9 me" for
>example) but don't know of anything that  handles the format.
>
>I've got a built-in
>VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
>
>running the via82cxxx_audio kernel for the driver.
>


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