Re: MP3 skippety skip skipageness

Gerhard Mack (gmack@imag.net)
Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:31:25 -0800 (PST)

Interesting, it seems to have worked ok for this mornings alarmclock of 5
metallica mp3s started with crontab. (yes this is what it takes to wake me
up in the morning) Everything sounded fine.

system:
P133 UP
32 mb ram
kernel 2.2.3.
sb16
player mpg123 Version 0.59o

Gerhard

On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> I just booted 2.2.3 and once again, I must say that I am simply
> AMAZED by the performance differences of the hard disk and CDROM
> under 2.2.x.
>
> So, that said, everyone involved with 2.2.x development give
> yourselves a big pat on the back. I can't wait until RedHat puts
> together 6.0 so I can clean up my messed up system. ;o)
>
> Anyways... back onto the topic of my subject line. I just
> played an MP3 file, and it played halfway through ok, and then it
> got to the "He's getting a tattoo, yeah he's getting ink done, he
> asked for a 13 but,.................................." big long
> skip for a second or two "they drew a thirty-one"............
> skip again.............
>
> The system is totally idle. I just booted, logged in, ran mc,
> discovered that it will call an mp3 player, tried running an mp3,
> examined the error output, found out that sound modules didn't
> load, spent 10 minutes troubleshooting why, determined that
> conf.modules is different from 2.0 to 2.2, made the necessary
> change by adding a "dma16=5", and then loaded the modules. Then
> I tried playing the mp3 again. It worked. Up until the skip
> skip part above.
>
> Oh, prior to running the mp3, I started up PINE too. That is all
> that was running though other than my normal system services.
> No network interfaces were up at the time including PPP.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
>
> --
> Mike A. Harris Linux advocate GNU advocate
> Computer Consultant Open Source advocate
>
> The DVORAK keyboard layout RULES! I memorized it in 45 minutes
> and I don't think I'm ever going back to QWERTY!
>
>
> -
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
> 

--
gmack@imag.net


As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.




-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/