From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Mar 19 9:57:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com [24.6.21.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C50D37B663; Sun, 19 Mar 2000 09:57:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from conrads@cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA01098; Sun, 19 Mar 2000 11:57:25 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <001a01bf91c1$7f62a4b0$0304020a@NENYA> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 11:57:25 -0600 (CST) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: Cameron Grant Subject: Re: Suggestions for improving newpcm performance? Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 19-Mar-00 Cameron Grant wrote: >> As I mentioned in another post, since upgrading to 4.0 and converting >> from Voxware to newpcm, I've noticed quite a significant degradation >> in audio performance. Whereas my MP3s used to play smoothly until the >> system load reached a really high level, now I'm getting breakup even >> with minimal system loads (on a 166MHz P5). > > define breakup? noise, or pausing? Pausing, choppiness. > what you are seeing is probably spl-related. spls are going away > in -current, which will improve concurrency greatly. I'm sure I have no idea what you're talking about. :-) > the situation with voxware is that it will remain in 4.x, but unless a > maintainer comes forward who will convert it to newbus, in -current it > will soon be toast. I tried building a kernel with the old Voxware stuff, and config warned me that the drivers had been deprecated and to use pcm/sbc/etc instead. So it *is* possible to still use the old stuff? Hmmm. -- Conrad Sabatier http://members.home.net/conrads/ ICQ# 1147270 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message