On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 12:45:11PM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote:
Aaron Haviland <orion@parsed.net> writes:
dulsi@identicalsoftware.com wrote, on Nov 30, 2008 at 17:53 EST:
I don't have a problem with the volume. The sound just skips. I added myself to the pulse-rt group which was suggested on the fedora forum. As said on the forum, it improves the situation but does not make it perfect. Finally I ended up changing System->Preferences->Hardware->Sound from Autodetect to ESS Allegro PCI Allegro (OSS). Unfortunately the gnome-mplayer doesn't use that setting and ignores the preferences where you specify the audio driver. Running it from the command line with -ao oss works.
then maybe try specifying in ~/.mplayer/config:
ao=oss
How about just filing a bug? Call me crazy, but I don't think it's too much to ask for the defaults to just work.
I already pointed to a bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462026 Instead of using the obsolete OSS interface or downgrading alsa-plugins-pulseaudio as a workaround, you might try disabling timer-based audio scheduling: Replace the line: load-module module-hal-detect in /etc/pulse/default.pa by: load-module module-hal-detect tsched=0