From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 25 13:58:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.cvzoom.net (ns.cvzoom.net [208.226.154.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 04CB314EB8 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:58:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmmiller@cvzoom.net) Received: (qmail 8379 invoked from network); 25 Jan 2000 21:58:41 -0000 Received: from lcm97.cvzoom.net (HELO cvzoom.net) (208.230.69.97) by ns.cvzoom.net with SMTP; 25 Jan 2000 21:58:41 -0000 Message-ID: <388E1C6B.489B84D2@cvzoom.net> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 16:58:03 -0500 From: Donn Miller X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pcm - stutters References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nick Hibma wrote: > The output of my ESS 1869 stutters whenever there is no new data fed to > it. For example pressing Ctrl-Z, or heavy disk usage (normally making > mpg123 jump). The stuttering is repetition of one short fragment of > about a quarter of a second, indefinitely I can confirm this. Whenever there is any substantial disk activity, the output of mpg123 starts to jump and quiver (and sometimes skip). Why would disk activity do this? Must be an issue with bus latency, because the ata and sound driver are trying to access the bus at the same time. Also, it seems like certain graphics ops in XFree86 3.9.17 make mpg123 jump and skip. Strangely, RealPlayer doesn't suffer from these problems. - Donn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message