Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 11:57:25 -0600 (CST) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com> To: Cameron Grant <gandalf@vilnya.demon.co.uk> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggestions for improving newpcm performance? Message-ID: <XFMail.000319115725.conrads@home.com> In-Reply-To: <001a01bf91c1$7f62a4b0$0304020a@NENYA>
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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
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