Some dsound oddness

[Tony Lambregts]

Duane Clark wrote:
> I had noticed a few weeks ago that sound for me on Riven was now having 
> problems. It used to be almost perfect, but now it was suddenly doing 
> things like changing pitch and speed, losing sync with the video, and 
> breaking up.
> 
> Of course I initially suspected a regression, though no one else 
> mentioned problems. I just now got around to spending a bit more time on 
> it and found it was not a regression. I checked just about everything, 
> including kernel and ALSA upgrades, before discovering that it was the 
> file /c/window/QTW.ini.
> 
> It had previously contained:
> [Sound 32]
> DisableAutoRateAdjust=1
> 
> And now contained:
> [Sound 32]
> RequestedRate0=22050
> ActualRate0=22450
> RateAlgorithm0=0
> 
> Changing it back fixed the problem. I guess while I have it "fixed" now, 
> if anyone had some additional enlightenment on what is going on here, I 
> would be interested.
> 

Well I would think that you have run some other program that uses Quick Time yes?

I think it would be a good idea to add this to the appdb though.

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Tony Lambregts