Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 20:05:48 -0800 From: Devin Butterfield <dbutter@wireless.net> To: Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pcm - stutters Message-ID: <00012520102300.02605@dbm.wireless.net> In-Reply-To: <388E1C6B.489B84D2@cvzoom.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0001250032280.372-100000@localhost> <388E1C6B.489B84D2@cvzoom.net>
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Donn Miller wrote: > 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. I too notice these problems of mpg123 skipping during disk activity or X graphics ops but I have always had these problems, both with -STABLE and -CURRENT. I notice this with xmms too. So this is nothing new. -- Regards, Devin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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