From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 17 18:20:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grey.cloud.rain.com (c1029014-a.bvrtn1.or.home.com [24.12.160.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0FD137B94F for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 18:20:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trost@cloud.rain.com) Received: (qmail 38524 invoked from network); 18 Feb 2000 02:20:46 -0000 Received: from localhost.cloud.rain.com (HELO cloud.rain.com) (@127.0.0.1) by localhost.cloud.rain.com with SMTP; 18 Feb 2000 02:20:46 -0000 To: Ryan Thompson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems playing back high-quality mp3's References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <38520.950840445.1@cloud.rain.com> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 18:20:45 -0800 Message-ID: <38521.950840445@cloud.rain.com> From: Bill Trost Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message