Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 20:38:09 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <freebsd@sasknow.com> To: Bill Trost <trost@cloud.rain.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems playing back high-quality mp3's Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002172023070.81829-100000@sasknow.com> In-Reply-To: <38521.950840445@cloud.rain.com>
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Bill Trost wrote: > 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. Agreed. > > 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. You mean you've never looked? For all you know they've secretly replaced your pcm IC with wax paper, an elastic and a toilet paper tube! :-) > 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. Hmm... Could well be buggy support. Try some other pcm applications to verify that... If you can generate similar results, suspect the driver. If another OS gives you the same problems, suspect the hardware. If neither one works, buy a Diamond Rio :-) > 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? I haven't noticed. It tends to "burp" after a suspend, but that's just a result of the buffer clearing out. I don't notice any pattern repitition. This is with a SB PCI128 (ESS chip). -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> 50% Owner, Sysadmin SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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