Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 18:20:45 -0800 From: Bill Trost <trost@cloud.rain.com> To: Ryan Thompson <freebsd@sasknow.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems playing back high-quality mp3's Message-ID: <38521.950840445@cloud.rain.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002171957230.81829-100000@sasknow.com>
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Ryan Thompson writes:
You haven't mentioned what sort of processor and storage medium
you're using.
It's a lightly loaded eMachine 400i3 (so 400 MHz Celery processor), and
the files are in a tmpfs partition on the local disk (and hence are
probably all cached in the 64 MB of memory), so getting enough disk and
CPU bandwidth isn't the issue.
It's possible that your sound card or motherboard (BUS) is to blame,
as well, but I am not familiar with the card you mentioned.
The sound device is actually a chip on the motherboard, as I understand
it. The csa device's support for this chip appears to be relatively
new -- it's only by upgrading to the 4.0 pre-release that I got sound
support at all.
Thanks for the response. At least I now know the problem isn't at the
app level. (-:
Oh, and while I'm whining -- when I interrupt mpg123 or splay, the last
block of sound data echoes for a second or so, as though the sound chip
does not get told to stop playing or something. Is *this* a known
problem, or am I privileged in this regard, too?
Thanks again,
Bill
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