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Date:      Mon, 22 Dec 1997 06:47:03 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper)
Cc:        hasty@rah.star-gate.com, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: These mtv video pauses are murder
Message-ID:  <199712221147.GAA01288@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <19971221222047.08726@ct.picker.com> from Randall Hopper at "Dec 21, 97 10:20:47 pm"

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Randall Hopper said:
> 
> So its definitely related to the bandwidth of audio data mtv is trying to
> pump into the sound driver.  But I guess your previous msgs to/from Tristan
> confirmed that -- mtv probably blocking waiting on buffers to free up.
> 
> Once we get YUV and mpeg_encode streaming in place in fxtv and have mtv
> really cooking with medium- and high-quality audio, MPEGs on FreeBSD will
> be _very_ cool.
> 
You *might* want to try to do the audio with the AIO code (as long as you
are not running SMP.)  Oops!!! I haven't written manpages yet.  For specs,
refer to your trusty IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 (POSIX.4). :-(.

-- 
John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
dyson@freebsd.org     | it just makes you look stupid,
jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.



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