Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 23:25:39 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Generic Player <generic@unitedtamers.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do you people listen to mp3s? Message-ID: <20000702232539.B232@parish> In-Reply-To: <395F7E7A.2A928EC3@unitedtamers.com>; from generic@unitedtamers.com on Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 01:40:10PM -0400 References: <395F7E7A.2A928EC3@unitedtamers.com>
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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
>
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