Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:36:43 -0200 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> To: "Ilya Nickolsky" <aspdaspn@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Audio CD Message-ID: <e71790db0811240736j1a0f4390wed61dbcd9c3c2a7c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4c3522c70811231403o4692ec2am9b25fd3f346d4941@mail.gmail.com> References: <4c3522c70811210725m2e3f1e6en419140e95c77318@mail.gmail.com> <e71790db0811221517i1390f524ibe26ec21880e727a@mail.gmail.com> <4c3522c70811231403o4692ec2am9b25fd3f346d4941@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Ilya Nickolsky <aspdaspn@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Carlos, > > Thanks for your answer. > When cdcontrol playing top shows 2 - 7% CPU load > When I use CD player from Gnome it is 8 - 10% > When I start freevo (inside gnome session) it start xine and it is also 8 .. > 12 % > > I see that difference is not really big. Mind you where could be a problem? Ilya, Please do not top-post, and keep the list copied in your replies. What about memory usage? How much swap is your system using? I guess it is spending a deal of time on disk I/O. > With Best Regards, > Ilya Nickolsky > > > 2008/11/23 Carlos A. M. dos Santos <unixmania@gmail.com> >> >> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Ilya Nickolsky <aspdaspn@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hello All, >> > >> > I have FreeBSD 63 running on Thinkpad 600X (P3, 256 Mb RAM, sound >> > CS4624). I >> > could listen AudioCD only with cdcontrol play command entered in console >> > or >> > in xterm under X. When CD is playing the CD-ROM drive lit a led not >> > constantly and sound is correct. but when I use any player for X like >> > default in GNOME, or Mplayer/XINE/XMMS under freevo I hear sound >> > interruptions and CD-ROM LED lit constantly. I hear sound interruption >> > and >> > sound is not "clear". Could you help me to correct this? >> >> Ilya, >> >> When you play a CD via cdcontrol the audio decoding is made by the CD >> drive, which is connected to a corresponding input of the audio mixer >> on the computer main board. When you use mplayer/xine/xmms, however, >> the program must extract the digital data and make the conversion, >> before sending it to the audio device. Your problem is probably that >> your computer has not enough processing power to perform the >> conversion. What does "top" show when you try to play the CD? >> >> One possible alternative, if you want a GUI player, is using a program >> like XMCD or xcdplayer. >> >> -- >> cd /usr/ports/sysutils/life >> make clean > > -- cd /usr/ports/sysutils/life make clean
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