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Subject: Re: Call for thread testers: XMMS
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Morten Rodal wrote:

>On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 10:20:09PM +0200, Maciej Freudenheim wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello!
>>
>>I was tuning xmms some time ago. Now i'm running it linked with libthr
>>for about 2 weeks and i haven't observed any problems.
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Does it operate correctly
>>>      
>>>
>>Yes.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>I have tried to run xmms with libkse on both a SMP (Dual P2 300MHz)
>and on my laptop (P4 1.7GHz).   Unfortunately I must report that the
>results are better with libc_r.
>
>When xmms starts to play any type of sound I can hear spikes and other
>distortions in the sound.  This happens regardless of the load of the
>machine, and it does not help to increase the buffer size.  However,
>after a while the spikes get less frequent.
>
>I will try libthr when I get home later today and see if it works
>better than libkse.
>
>  
>
Can you update to lastest libkse source code to see if you can still hear
obvious spikes and distortions ?

David Xu