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Subject: Re: forcing more sound buffering
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On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 01:11:17AM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> 
> Well is supports eg mpg123 -b 4096	# caches size specifiable,
> which seems to help, Thanks
> 
> Some other thinsg support cache too eg:
> 	mplayer -cache 4096 -audiofile-cache 4096 -cache-min 80
> 
> Making cache bigger doesnt simply always improve thingsm curiously.

Because -cache specifies the preload cache, not the audio output cache.

-- Rick C. Petty