On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 12:51:33AM +0200, martin wrote: > Not sure, if this may relate to your problem, but .. > > I use xine plugin and every once in a while I had a short interruption of > sound. Today I was tail-ing -f syslog for another reason and there was this > little glitch again! Just a very short interruption with no sound. I spent > several weekends to find out, why xine always tells me, that "fixing sound > card drift". I was p***ed by my hardware, but now I found out, what cause > the problem. It's my ntpd, that steps the clock on my VDR hardware. To fix > this, I now start ntpd with the "-x" option. > > For Reference from man ntpd: > -x Ordinarily, if the time is to be adjusted more than 128 ms, it > is stepped, not gradually slewed. This option forces the > time > to be slewed in all cases. Hmm - I've configured VDR to adjust the system time. Possibly this is causing the same problem. Should VDR doing the same as "ntpd -x"? Greetings, Bernd
