The sound is skippy

[ShamrockGold]

It could just be my computer but if anyone has any ideas to fix it up I'm open to them, thanks

[Johan_H]

Some specs and what version and a better description of the problem would be nice. People here aren't psychics (I think).

[c.dub]

I can't speak for the above user, but I'm also having problems with my sound. In ZSNES, it's not so much skippy as there is a slight delay - the sound comes about a half second after the action. I'm not sure if this is helpful, but the play/sound in DeSmuMe (DS emulator) and SNES-9x are both worse, and it feels like I'm constantly stopping and starting rapidly.

I'm running Core 2 Duo 3 gigahertz x 2 processor, 250 gb hdd, and Linux Mint 9 (which is pretty much Ubuntu 10.04).

Also perhaps relevant, the problem disappears (at least for ZSNES, haven't tried the other ones yet) when running under Wine.

[paulguy]

Make sure the sound isn't routing through pulseaudio or anything like that.

Try this:

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SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa zsnes

from the terminal

Another thing to try is:

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SDL_AUDIODRIVER=oss zsnes

That'll go through the OSS emulation layer of ALSA, but some people have good luck doing that, because it bypasses the software mixer.

[c.dub]

Tried both of those, neither had an effect. In fact, when I typed in zsnes in the terminal by itself, after I had tried SDL_AUDIODRIVER=oss zsnes, I got this output in the terminal:

Audio Opened.
Driver: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) output
Channels: 2
Rate: 32000

[c.dub]

Just a quick update - I switched from Gnome to LXDE and the problem was solved. Not sure why Gnome was doing that, as I believe I have decent enough specs, but alas, I think I'll stick with this anyway.

[kode54]

Possibly an issue with PulseAudio?

[fleshgordon]

Hi, I had a problem in Ubuntu 9.10 with PulseAudio and crackling sound...

you can try this:

open "zsnesl.cfg" in editor and search for:

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libAoDriver=

change it to:

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libAoDriver="pulse"

it worked for me very well...clear sound...no crackles any more...
maybe it helps