[macvoiceover] Re: Slightly OT The Airport Report
- From: "Sara" <push649@xxxxxxx>
- To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 10:53:49 -0600
Must be that driver then. It seemed a little better with airport off but maybe
I am imagining it or maybe the crackling isn't really severe on my machine.
I am running VMWare.
I also can't record with the built-in mic in windows. Well I can, but it speeds
up my voice and it makes weird noise in the file. Oh well, I can always use
Garage Band. smile
Sara
----- Original Message -----
From: Jacob Schmude
To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 10:39 AM
Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: Slightly OT The Airport Report
Are you talking about running Windows natively or in a VM for this? If you're
in VMWare or Virtualbox you're going to get this crackling no matter what. The
audio card they emulate is an Ensoniq ENS1371, and that particular windows
driver crackles on just about any cards it's compatible with. Virtualbox is
significantly worse than VMWare in this department, as its coreaudio driver
isn't quite as good particularly at resampling. It should be noted that the
crackling is a function of the Windows driver, not directly of VMWare itself.
This applies to all VMWare installations, be they using Fusion on Mac or
Workstation on Linux or Windows. In the case of Virtualbox the crackling
generated by this driver is added to some of the audio artifacts present in
Virtualbox's CoreAudio interface, making it worse. I'm not sure about Parallels
as I've never used it.
On Dec 7, 2008, at 11:24, Sara wrote:
Hi all.
I was experiencing the same problem with crackling in Windows on my Mac so
thought I would disable Airport and use ethernet and see if I still get
crackling.
I am not 100% sure because I didn't test it for long, but I think the
crackling when two sounds happen together like an msn alert over speech is a
little less with wireless turned off. I think you have to turn the whole card
off to try this so you go vo space twice then arrow to the airport menu and
choose turn airport off. Of course you will need ethernet to still use your
network. Too bad I am wired again! I might as well leave wireless off.
Sara
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