Stuttering Sound - For Windows and Linux Guests
Stuttering Sound - For Windows and Linux Guests
Hey all,
For the life of me i cant figure out what i did to upset Virtualbox but now whenever any sounds are created by the guest they come out as slightly distorted elongated sounds with constant stuttering. If you need me to i can record it with a microphone of somesort.
It happens in my XP guest and when i use the ubuntu live cd.
I use the alsa driver for my virtual machines.
My PC is running KDE on FF 7.04 ubuntu
thanks
Julius
For the life of me i cant figure out what i did to upset Virtualbox but now whenever any sounds are created by the guest they come out as slightly distorted elongated sounds with constant stuttering. If you need me to i can record it with a microphone of somesort.
It happens in my XP guest and when i use the ubuntu live cd.
I use the alsa driver for my virtual machines.
My PC is running KDE on FF 7.04 ubuntu
thanks
Julius
I have this same problem... all sounds are stuttering in my guest (WinXP, though I checked it with the live cd also).
I tried installing the low-latency kernel in case that helped, but to no avail. Could it be related to the sound card in use? (Mine is the hd-audio riser card that comes with the Asus Striker Extreme)
Thanks,
Nathan
I tried installing the low-latency kernel in case that helped, but to no avail. Could it be related to the sound card in use? (Mine is the hd-audio riser card that comes with the Asus Striker Extreme)
Thanks,
Nathan
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It works perfectly (having done exactly the same) - including mixing the host and guest sounds - on the older shuttle system, so there must be an issue either with the sound card support in my host (which I don't think there is as it plays perfectly) or in the emulated card (when running on my real card).
Ah well, thanks for trying ,
Nathan
Ah well, thanks for trying ,
Nathan
I just recently switched from Vista Home Basic to Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04 and I would like to use my old Creative Labs External USB modem as an answering machine as I had done under Windows. My Windows XP guest (What I had before getting Vista) recognizes the modem just fine, but the quality of the transmission is terrible. It only hears 1 ring and just sits there waiting until it times out. I had it call my cell and it couldn't dial out because the phone couldn't understand the garbled carrier tones. I tried switching the sound engines and it does sound better in the Guest, but still no go though the modem. I have an Audigy 2 Value sound card.
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Re: Stuttering Sound - For Windows and Linux Guests
I had a similar problem. When I installed XP as a guest, the sounds would stutter, and yet, when I would install a Linux distro, I didn't have any problems with sound at all. That SHOULD have keyed me to the problem, however, that I still fought with this for months.
To begin with I have a 2.4 Pentium 4 CPU, with 4 gigs of RAM (1024 MB dedicated for the guest), and AC'97 sound on the system board.
I tried downloading the drivers from Realtek and installing them, but it didn't help. So, as a last resort, I went into device manager, right-mouse-clicked on the sound card driver, selected "update driver", and when the prompt asked me if Windows could go out the the Internet to find the driver, I selected "No, not this time", and clicked on "Next". The next window asks if you want to install automatically or from a list. I selected "Install from a list or specific location", then clicked "Next". In the next window, I chose "Don't search. I will choose the driver to install.", then I clicked on "Next". In the next window, I selected the INTEL driver (for my computer, it was the Intel(r) 82801AA AC'97 Audio Controller) and let it install that driver instead of the default Vinyl AC'97. After a reboot, my sound problem went away.
My guess would be that the default driver is a resource hog, whereas the Intel driver is stripped down and less cumbersome.
In any event, I hope this helps someone out there.
To begin with I have a 2.4 Pentium 4 CPU, with 4 gigs of RAM (1024 MB dedicated for the guest), and AC'97 sound on the system board.
I tried downloading the drivers from Realtek and installing them, but it didn't help. So, as a last resort, I went into device manager, right-mouse-clicked on the sound card driver, selected "update driver", and when the prompt asked me if Windows could go out the the Internet to find the driver, I selected "No, not this time", and clicked on "Next". The next window asks if you want to install automatically or from a list. I selected "Install from a list or specific location", then clicked "Next". In the next window, I chose "Don't search. I will choose the driver to install.", then I clicked on "Next". In the next window, I selected the INTEL driver (for my computer, it was the Intel(r) 82801AA AC'97 Audio Controller) and let it install that driver instead of the default Vinyl AC'97. After a reboot, my sound problem went away.
My guess would be that the default driver is a resource hog, whereas the Intel driver is stripped down and less cumbersome.
In any event, I hope this helps someone out there.
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Re: Stuttering Sound - For Windows and Linux Guests
I had this problem with a USB sound device. I run AMD64 Ubuntu 9.04 and WinXP guest. With the default kernel, I had major issues. After intstalling the RT kernel in the apt-repositories, sound is much better. There are some minor dropouts, but it is at least workable (for Skype).
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Re: Stuttering Sound - For Windows and Linux Guests
Hope this helps.
Using Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit host
Windows 7 64 bit guest
Try disabling 2D and 3D Video acceleration.
Using Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit host
Windows 7 64 bit guest
Try disabling 2D and 3D Video acceleration.
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Re: Stuttering Sound - For Windows and Linux Guests
Disabling Intel® HT Technology (Hyper-Threading) in the host Bios settings completely eliminated the audio stuttering in my windows xp guest.