Hi! I´m on a rather slow machine, a Pentium running at 50 MHz. This is just fine for working, and should be reasonably fast for playing mp3´s.
With mpg123 (stable) CPU-usage is ~ 70 %, but I get random clicks and other nasty distortions. Ok, renice mpg123 to -3, so it should be served before anything else (other than swap et al). No change. xmms is out of the question anyway, it eats 50 % CPU on my P3/850MHz-notebook, so I don´t wonder that it doesn´t live up to the task on the slow box (not even when setuid root´ing it and using the "realtime priority"-thingie). Then I tried playing ´round with the IRQ-priorities, setting the IRQ for the soundcard (SB16/ISA) to highest priority. Still no luck. Any ideas? I don´t want to up-clock (and increase power-usage thus) the machine just for being able to play mp3´s... Maybe there´s some optimized player out there, and I´m just not able to locate it... Whatever, happy for any advice/hints/FMs to R/.. cheers+TIA, &rw -- -- Booze: because one doesn't solve the world's problems over white wine. ----
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