21 Nov
2002
21 Nov
'02
4:55 a.m.
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:40:12PM +0000, Matthew Yee-King wrote:
i've had the white noise problem. i noticed that
if the volume was
really low in the app, it was usable almost.
Sounds *very* like an endian issue then. When the level is so low that only
the lower 8 bits are changing, that will come out as 16 bit audio with the
top 8 bits changing (i.e. raised in level by 48 dB). As soon as the level
overflows to more than 8 bits, horrendous fuzz sets in.
which sounds like a
hardware issue, so how can the problem go away with a different kernel
and the same app?
If different kernel means different sound driver, one driver may be doing
the byte swapping conditionally on CPU byte order and the other not.
(wild guess)
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