From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Jun 27 14:30: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from vilnya.demon.co.uk (vilnya.demon.co.uk [158.152.19.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5F0A37B421 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 14:29:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gandalf@vilnya.demon.co.uk) Received: from haveblue (haveblue.rings [10.2.4.5]) by vilnya.demon.co.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 7ACADD96E; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 22:29:37 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <06a501c0ff50$854fa5f0$0504020a@haveblue> From: "Cameron Grant" To: "Randall Hopper" , References: <20010627160719.A1481@nc.rr.com> Subject: Re: pcm driver delay (4.3-stable) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 22:31:26 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Got a question though. When I fire up mpg123 to play an mp3, it > pauses for 1 second before it plays the file (it doesn't pause at all with > the snd driver). Anybody figured this one out? yep. > loop, apparently fighting the sound driver to initialize the playback > settings. I guess it eventually wins (or gives up), but I'm not sure. It > plays OK after the delay. it's probing every different format to see what is supported. this results in a buffer clear each time. since the default buffer sizes amount to 132k and there are 108 formats probed this takes some time. -cg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message