Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Jul 1999 23:21:10 -0700 | From | David Schleef <> | Subject | Re: real-time threaded IO with low latency (audio) |
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On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 03:14:58AM +0000, Gerhard Mack wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > the whole 'why sound skips' problem i think lacks one major necessery > > component: information. Nobody really ever analyzed what the problem > > really is/was. I do have a awe64 soundcard (which i almost never use), if > > you (or anyone else) could point to a method to make sound-playback > > produce bad quality, i'd be happy to analyze the problem. Is running > > mpg123 enough to see the problem? What should i do to make sound skip? > > I've tried to do this again and discovered that it's much harder to do > then it used to be. > > Start mpg123 with no buffer parameter. > Then start a kernel compile. > > Mpg123 will skip as the disk usage gets heavy. > > Somewhere between 2.2.8 and 2.3.4 something drastically reduced the sound > dropouts on my system. I used to be able to make the sound skip even with > "mpg123 -b 1024" but that is no longer the case. > > Gerhard >
I have an ISA soundblaster on the motherboard, and a CDROM on an ISA controller. If I try to access the CDROM while playing sounds, like playing an MP3 off the CDROM, or burning a CD while listening to realaudio, I get skips. Absolutely no skips if I'm not using the CDROM. Kernel is 2.2.10.
dave...
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