An Old Question Rears its ugly head again -- SDL_mixer Delay when playing WAV files

SDL Development
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I am trying to play a wav file with SDL_mixer,and it works great except
that there is a long delay between the call to Mix_PlayChannel and the
actual playing of the sound. The delay is at least a second long, and
very, very annoying.This happens both in my code and in Roger
Ostrander’s mixer tutorial code.
(http://kekkai.org/roger/sdl/mixer/mixer2.c)

This happens on two different machines, 800/900 mhz Both Running RH 9.0
with KDE. One has a Creative Awe64 soundcard (ISA) and the Other a ESS
Maestro (pci). SDL_mixer is 1.2.5-1 RPM reports that SDL is 1.2.5-3,
oddly enough.

Looking through the SDL mailing list archives I noticed a small thread
in February 2003 describing my problem. I’m a little frustrated with
this, and I was just wondering if anyone had figured this out.
Any help/information would be greatly appreciated.–
Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with
confidence.

Jason Remley
@Jason_Remley

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I have similar problems, delays when wave files play, if the wave files
play at all.

I was going to make a simple test case and send it to Sam over the
weekend, but if happens in that simple tutorial, we can hope it will be
solved soon. I was about to switch to OpenAL :\

Lic. Gabriel Gambetta
ARTech - GeneXus Development Team
ggambett at artech.com.uy> ----- Original Message -----

From: Jason Remley [mailto:jareml00@earthlink.net]
Sent: Viernes, 15 de Agosto de 2003 04:01 p.m.
To: sdl at libsdl.org
Subject: [SDL] An Old Question Rears its ugly head again – SDL_mixer
Delay when playing WAV files

I am trying to play a wav file with SDL_mixer,and it works great except
that there is a long delay between the call to Mix_PlayChannel and the
actual playing of the sound. The delay is at least a second long, and
very, very annoying.This happens both in my code and in Roger
Ostrander’s mixer tutorial code.
(http://kekkai.org/roger/sdl/mixer/mixer2.c)

This happens on two different machines, 800/900 mhz Both Running RH 9.0
with KDE. One has a Creative Awe64 soundcard (ISA) and the Other a ESS
Maestro (pci). SDL_mixer is 1.2.5-1 RPM reports that SDL is 1.2.5-3,
oddly enough.

Looking through the SDL mailing list archives I noticed a small thread
in February 2003 describing my problem. I’m a little frustrated with
this, and I was just wondering if anyone had figured this out. Any
help/information would be greatly appreciated.

–
Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with
confidence.

Jason Remley
jareml00 at earthlink.net

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