VIA 8233 onboard Snd Crd, using alsa

[pandazero]

Ne1 else experiencing sub par quality playback on any audio format?
also mplayer seems to be playing all files at an accelerated playback.
i cannot sleep at nite think at that people in my computer move faster then i do j/k

For those that own a Motherboard with this onboard audio device, and use it,
do you think alsa or oss will give you better quality.
i tired to search the forum for more information on alsa and via audio devices and didn't find much.

thanks.

[FormerSlacker]

Well this onboard chip is a bit odd. I myself have an onboard 8233. In windows the quality was acceptable; It wasn't the greatest, but it was good enough. Under linux it was just terrible. With both alsa and oss, it just sounded bad. I know this isn't a solution, but just save yourself some trouble and get another card. I had an old Ensoniq laying around, and while it's not the greatest soundcard, the difference between the two is night and day. It's too bad that the linux drivers for this onboard sound chipset aren't as good as the windows drivers.

To be fair, the 8233 is a real pos from what I've read.

[furanku]

This is a known bug. You can find a description at sourceforge under the subject

[ 465387 ] VIA8233 / VIA VT1611A noisy playback

It seems like a problem with the samplerate setting. Some people (incl. me) report that setting the value to fixed value of 48 kHz fix the problem.

Try to set the samplerate to 48000 in the KDE control center. That is for me a good workaround. All aRts aware apps (incl. non KDE apps like xmms, xine and mplayer) have now a clean, undistorted audio output.

If you're not using KDE (or at least aRts) try something like