[Pkg-games-ubuntu] [Bug 442388] Re: openarena bad quality sound when using OpenAL engine

[Stripe]

I have the same problem. I try to use OpenArena with openal option
"Off". In this case throw several seconds there are some small looses of
sound (like 0.2 seconds silence), and throw about 20 seconds sound lost
at all.

In case of openal library there is no sound, but loud scratch noise like "khrh"
I try change properties of openal librares and test it by mplayer:
mplayer -ao openal file.mp3
If i set in /etc/openal/alsoft.conf option "drivers = pulse" - to use pulseaudio - mplayer and openarena does not start. look like openal can not connect to pulseaudio. Same happens with last stable openal 1.9.563.
If "driver = alsa" mplayer work fine, but in some unrepeatable situation i hear the same scratch  distortions.

So the problem is openal. This also support that different games affected by this problem.
p.s. Ununtu 9.04 was not affected.

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openarena bad quality sound when using OpenAL engine
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Status in “openarena” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
Binary package hint: openarena

In Karmic when a game starts the sound is good for a few seconds. After that, the quality is very bad.

When I set OpenAL to off, the sound quality is always good.

lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release:	9.10

apt-cache policy openarena
openarena:
  Installed: 0.8.1-4
  Candidate: 0.8.1-4
  Version table:
 *** 0.8.1-4 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct  4 12:45:52 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: openarena 0.8.1-4
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: openarena
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64