On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 at 20:48 GMT, Michael Bona penned: > Hi all, > > one things really bugs me about my Linux box: Playing MP3s or Oggs is > frequently interrupted for a split second when there is a little more > than the usual disk activity. Say I open one programme and close > another at the same time. For the duration of that disk activity, > sound stutters. > > Considering that an old system like Winnt4 (on a slower system) could > handle my way of working there must be a way out ... > > I am running Woody / KDE 3.1.3 with aRts on a Duron 800 with 258 MB > of RAM. I have tried several players, notably noatun and kaboodle. > Soundserver runs with realtime priority (setting in KDE control > center). > > Any advice? > > Thanks! Michael >
IIRC, xmms offers a variety of choices for buffering the file ... if you really, really want to make sure you don't get stutters, you can pre-buffer the whole thing. -- monique Unless you need to share ultra-sensitive super-spy stuff with me, please don't email me directly. I will most likely see your post before I read your mail, anyway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
