Bug#356917: audio delay

[Aurelien Jarno]

christophpfister at bluemail.ch a écrit :
>>>When I play different SDL applications (I've tried out freeciv, lgeneral,
>>>mirrormagic, frozen-bubble) I notice that the sound is delayed (about
> 
> 0.3
> 
>>>seconds).
>>>
>>>I used the alsa and arts versions of this library, but I've checked alsa
>>>(simple beep application unter wine+alsa) and there's no delay.
>>
>>  Are you running the artsd sound server? If you are, it's what causes
>>the delay and there's little that libSDL can do about it, unfortunately.
>>
>>-- 
>>Sam.
> 
> 
> Yes, I am :(.
> I don't know why the artsd server causes this problem, but is there really
> no chance to fix it? In other words, what is exactly the problem?

Well the bug or the feature is in arts, so it would really be difficult 
to fix it in libSDL. You can try to go in the KDE configuration panel, 
Sound Server, and reduce the audio buffer to the minimum. But then the 
sound may be interrupt at some point.

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