[haiku-development] Re: Haiku + Acer Aspire One: Success!

Hi,

> LCD Brightness control works, and I just (within the past five
> minutes) found out that sound works (through OSS.) The volume seems to
> jump around randomly when MediaPlayer loses focus, VLC won't play any
> sound.

I may have screwed something up with regards to default settings. The 
MediaPlayer is supposed to make "background" instances quieter *if* there are 
multiple players running at all *and* if the settings is given.

As for VLC, there is probably a bug in either VLC or our BSoundPlayer 
implementation that VLC things buffers are too late. Instead, it should simply 
display the video later, so that it is in sync with audio. Audio has a big 
latency in OSS to avoid clicks. The latency can be reduced a lot but then 
clicks become audible when the system is even under slight stress. I can 
probably reduce it anyways so that there is a compromise between "mostly 
clickless" and a working VLC.

Best regards,
-Stephan

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