On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:30:06 -0600, "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 at 20:48 GMT, Michael Bona penned: > > Hi all, > > > > one things really bugs me about my Linux box: Playing MP3s or Oggs > > is frequently interrupted for a split second when there is a little > > more than the usual disk activity. Say I open one programme and > > close another at the same time. For the duration of that disk > > activity, sound stutters. > > > > Considering that an old system like Winnt4 (on a slower system) > > could handle my way of working there must be a way out ... > > > > I am running Woody / KDE 3.1.3 with aRts on a Duron 800 with 258 MB > > of RAM. I have tried several players, notably noatun and kaboodle. > > Soundserver runs with realtime priority (setting in KDE control > > center). > > > > Any advice? > > > > Thanks! Michael > > > > IIRC, xmms offers a variety of choices for buffering the file ... if > you really, really want to make sure you don't get stutters, you can > pre-buffer the whole thing. > ..fwiw, I run xmms off an Irish(?) mp3 feed with the default buffering etc settings to check my wifi link, taking the occational stutter as hints to check out my client nets. ;-) ..top reports xmms use .5% of my amd k6-2 450 and 2% of its 384MB ram, with an es1371. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
