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

Hi,

> Von: "Dustin Howett" <alaricx@xxxxxxxxx>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 5:09 AM, Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> 
> Ah, that's a nice feature.. but It's actually bumping the volume UP to
> approximately half (from 1/4), and there are no other instances
> running, in a fresh image. Don't know if it can be reproduced.

Ah ok, I may have messed something up.

> > 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.
> >
> 
> I'm not sure if it's this, though. The volume bar is dark grey (I
> thought it was green, or I might be insane, or this might not be the
> case for VLC) but still draggable. Almost like it's there but not "lit
> up" (If you were to take green as "on" or "there is an audio output
> mechanism"). The audio output plugin is blank in preferences.

The volume bar used to be green to indicate sound is available and on. It is 
dark grey when muted. It should be ghosted when no sound is available. This 
feature was lost somewhere along the lines when bringing the BeOS interface up 
to date in the VLC releases, like some other nice features that I had going 
during the VLC 0.4.3-0.4.6 times...

> The sound cut out halfway through the music video with MediaPlayer,
> and seeking crashed it, but sound worked in a new instance.

That is a problem I am aware of. The seeking problem is in the AVI addon I 
would assume and the sound stopping somewhere in the middle of the video should 
be a MediaPlayer bug.

Best regards,
-Stephan

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