Re: [Gap-dev-discuss] Cynthiune: Further Evidence on Old Problem

[Richard Stonehouse]

Hi Sebastian,

On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 07:15:58PM +0200, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:


> For me on OpenBSD, trying to play any MP3 segfaulted Cynthiune, on
> amd64 and on i386.
> I exchanged a memcpy with a memmove, and that segfaulting now was gone
> on both platforms.
> Afterward, playing that test file, sounds exactly the same for me on
> both. It's in SVN now.
>
> Do you can check, whether that might have fixed the noise problem for 
> you too?
> svn co svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/gap/trunk/user-apps/Cynthiune

Yes thanks, that fixes it for me on 64-bit. I've tried several MP3s 
and they all play fine. Great!

I'll build the 32-bit version and try it again tomorrow - but that 
used to work anyway, it would be just a regression test.

> Otherwise, what audio output backend do you use? I use OpenBSD 
> specific
> sndiod. If you still get that noise problem, do you can try another
> audio backend?

I'm now using the Pulse Audio server but the same problem occurred 
with output direct to alsa.

> While there I fixed two other minor compilation warnings also in SVN.
>
> Sebastian
>
> > Also attached are the /proc/cpuinfo from both machines.

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    Richard Stonehouse