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Date:      Sat, 6 May 2000 08:26:06 -0500
From:      "Jim King" <king@sstar.com>
To:        "Christian Weisgerber" <naddy@mips.inka.de>, <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Can an alpha user please test mpg123/alpha?
Message-ID:  <008801bfb75e$a39ff040$08e48486@marble>
References:  <200005050732.AAA91997@freefall.freebsd.org> <004b01bfb711$c5966c80$08e48486@marble> <8f0va4$2n9p$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>

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Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Jim King <king@sstar.com> wrote:
>
> > I cvsup'ed the port a couple hours ago and tried it just now on my
AS200.  I
> > had a couple glitches:
> >
> > A slight dropout when a couple cron jobs started simultaneously, while I
was
> > playing a song.  Very minor.
>
> This is not an issue with the port. You get dropouts because your
> machine is too slow or possibly (if the complaints I read elsewhere
> are true) because the sound driver reacts badly to load situations.
> And you have used mpg123's buffering facility (say, "-b1024"),
> haven't you?

I didn't use any options for mpg123.  I'm sure it was a load issue - an
AS200 is not a speed demon.


> > One file I played sounded OK but gave me these error messages:
>
> And you have verified that this particular MP3 file doesn't give
> any errors when played with mpg123 0.59r on x86? There's lots of
> broken MP3s out there.

I don't have an x86 box handy.

Jim




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