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The perfect OS | by mutt | 2008-06-13 02:01:19 |
| Day 4 |
by mutt |
2008-06-16 07:20:41 |
Firefox is installed and working nicely, , script for update and full build written and tested (although it did remove the NTFS support which I had to change), script for volume control is partially complete, mplayer, mpg123 and vlc are also installed.
The major hurdle I have run into, at this point, is the sound. Both mplayer and mpg123 crackle and pop badly while playing mp3 audio. vlc plays avi files perfectly but crackling is heard on dvd movies.
Some work revealed that the songs were encoded at 44.1 khz but the azalia driver used by the sound card is fixed at 48 khz. Using mpg123 -r 48000 or mplayer -srate 48000 fixed the issue for some time, but the problem keeps recurring. I have tried using esound which normally ships with enlightenment with configuration fixed to -r 4800 but no significant improvement was observed.
I also installed artsd from the kde package (read at their site that it is a more advanced replacement to esound) but have not been able to figure out how exactly to pipe its output to mplayer.
This definitely is a unique experience. I have spent the past few days working erratic hours on this laptop and it has been a while since I worked this hard at something. The artsd installation for example, threw an error each time. I had to go through the source code and use ktrace on the process to see what exactly the issue was before I could fix it.
One thing is for sure, this is the OS I am going to stick with for now.
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