Aaron, it isn't the fault of windows, nor the fault of linux. If I recall, there is a FAQ at www.winamp.com that describes this situation. Basically, your PCI bus gives the cycles to the videocard when it needs them, and lets the chips fall where they may -- which means skipping during audio playback for the soundcard.
Why it is more prevalent under windows is the Smooth Scrolling micros~1 introduced a little while back -- that sucks up the video bandwidth like nuts, and takes away from sound bandwidth. I wish I knew how to fix it. On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 05:59:10PM -0400, Aaron Solochek wrote: > One of the things I like when I first installed on my system (PII 400, > everything scsi, 128mb ram) was that I could play mp3's and they would > never skip when I was doing stuff in the background. That was back when > I had a SB AWE64gold... since then I have moved that to a different > machine and installed a sblive. Now the sounds skips every now and > then... I know for sure that xearth makes is skip when it refreshes. > Does anyone know why this is? Is the system priortizing its self > differently? Is it because I went from an ISA to a PCI sound card? > This is really starting to annoy me, especially because this was one of > my big complaints about windows. > > -Aaron Solochek > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
