From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 2 15:26: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta02-svc.server.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7987837B693 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 15:25:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.89.8]) by mta02-svc.server.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000702232522.NDHP10065.mta02-svc.server.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 23:25:22 +0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA01313; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 23:25:39 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 23:25:39 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Generic Player Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do you people listen to mp3s? Message-ID: <20000702232539.B232@parish> References: <395F7E7A.2A928EC3@unitedtamers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <395F7E7A.2A928EC3@unitedtamers.com>; from generic@unitedtamers.com on Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 01:40:10PM -0400 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 01:40:10PM -0400, Generic Player wrote: > I can't manage to find an mp3 player that works under freebsd > 4.0-release. They all skip horribly any time the system accesses the > disk at all, What disk(s) do you have. I've noticed other people reporting this problem and they all seem to be using IDE disks. I'm using 4-STABLE, xmms 1.2.1 (which is an improvement over 1.0.1(?) for skipping BTW) and UW SCSI disks. I'm listening to an mp3 and also re-building the locate(1) database (a very disk intensive activity) and I haven't heard it skip yet. Curiously scrolling up and down a big web page in Netscape is almost guaranteed to make it skip (although nothing excessive). IDE disks, especially without UDMA, use a lot of CPU resources so I guess this could explain it. > the only one I can get to play smoothly is kmp3, by turning > the buffer up to max. But it randomly crashes and then won't start > again unless I reboot the machine. A stable OS is no good if there are > no stable programs for it right? What programs do you use, or is it a > 4.0-release issue maybe? > > Once again, all help is greatly appreciated > Generic Player > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- If I buy a copy of WinDelete, and it doesn't delete Windows, am I entitled to my money back? ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message