sound jitter with snd_via8233 and freebsd 7

[Roland Smith]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:29:41PM +0100, Craig Butler wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I am experiencing sound jitter when watching video or listening to
> music.
> I have tried many players (vlc, mplayer, xine ... etc) with different
> cache settings -- same result.
> It jitters even if the computer is not busy.
> 
> Has anybody else experienced this ? is there a fix ?

You could try playing around with some of the sound sysctls:

hw.snd.latency_profile
hw.snd.latency
hw.snd.feeder_buffersize

(try 'sysctl hw.snd' to see all sysctls).

Roland
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