The following reply was made to PR kern/32718; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: re: kern/32718: choppy sound after mplayer pause/play, possibly kent-audio1 bug 
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 07:43:54 +1100

    
    i suspect it might be related to the way how mplayer pauses the sound
    and then restarts it.
 
 
 possibly.  sometime a year? or so ago i had to change my mplayer
 config from autosync=30 to autosync=100 otherwise i found that
 it regularly had audio pauses and sync lossage.  mplayer normally
 uses timing on the audio write() to figure into other calculations
 and setting autosync higher reduces how much it factors in.  so
 perhaps this is now write() returning after different intervals now
 than it used to?  ie, used to be consistent with the old kernel and
 now has less consistency with the newer kernel?