A step forward on one front. Mpxplay was not really hanging -- it was taking 30 seconds to start!
I ran "mpxplay -sct" and it identified a SBP card (Soundblaster Pro). I thought changing SoundcardName=AUTO to SoundcardName=SBP in mpxplay.ini might fix the slow start, but that does not help as far as I can tell. It seems that card detection is not what is slowing it down. Any tips for normalizing the mpxplay startup time? > On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 4:20 PM, John Hupp <free...@prpcompany.com> wrote: >> I saw little in mpxplay.ini that seemed like it was capable of >> immediately hanging the system. I commented out UseLFN to no effect. I >> also changed SoundCardName from AUTO to S16, and mpxplay reported that >> it could not initialize the card or a message to that effect. Then I >> changed that to SBP and it hung as before. >> >> On 6/2/2015 4:59 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: >>> Also, the cable is needed only if the player uses the CD-player audio >>> capabilities. MPXPLAY does not, it reads and processes audio tracks >>> himself instead. >>> >>> You will need to fiddle with your mpxplay.ini file for sure. But as for >>> a 'CD Player that works with FreeDOS', I'd say that pretty much any >>> player should work. Have you tried any yet, beside mpxplay? >>> >>> Mateusz >>> >>> >>> >>> On 02/06/2015 22:42, John Hupp wrote: >>>> On 6/2/2015 4:16 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: >>>>> On 6/2/2015 12:16 PM, John Hupp wrote: >>>>>> Are there tips/tricks to get mpxplay to work? What about a CD player >>>>>> that's known to work with FD 1.1? >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm using a default FD 1.1 setup and selecting the first menu item at >>>>>> boot. >>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
