Hi James,
Yes, thats the same problem I have with CD's - when I run it from the
command line it says things like - unable to fill buffer, can't read buffer
etc, the best setting I could get for it was a buffer of 4096, speed 8x. and
minimum buffer of 40% - but this isn't acceptable for playing CD's - if I
skip tracks of have it on random play it takes a good half a minute between
tracks filling the buffer. I haven't tried playing mp3 files over the
network again as this is already a deal breaker but previously in Ubuntu
they would just pause for a few seconds, fiddling with the buffers could get
it down to once or twice per song. I can't find anything on forums other
than running enormous buffers as a way aorund this so I will continue using
Xine - if only Freevo could read the artist metadata when playing radio
streams with Xine!
PS - I was at the stage of looking at hdparm settings becasue of these
issues but never changed anything, I have tested three different CD drives
and the problem is the same with all of them.
2010/11/18 James Trietsch <kero...@yahoo.com>
>
> *From:* Paul <strifek...@users.sourceforge.net>
> *To:* freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> *Sent:* Fri, November 12, 2010 11:49:58 AM
> *Subject:* [Freevo-users] Xine audio stream metadata
>
> I have set up arch linux on a new hard drive to run freevo 1.9 and found to
> my dismay that mplayer still has the same issues it had on Ubuntu (skipping
> stuttering play of CD's and audio files) I thought this was due to pulse
> audio on Ubuntu but clearly not. Thus I will have to return to Xine for
> audio playing which is fine except I have never been able to get Freevo to
> broadcast audio stream metadata (song tite, artist) from Icecast/shoutcast
> stations using Xine, however with Mplayer it works fine. Has anyone had
> success with this?
>
> Paul:
>
> What kind of skipping and stuttering are you having playing CDs in mplayer?
> I have a problem where the buffer runs out while playing, although not until
> after track 3 or 4 on any given disc. It's not a stutter so much as a gap in
> playback about 5 seconds long while the drive gets sorted out and starts
> reading data again. Setting a bigger cache helps a little, setting the CD
> speed to around 8x (-cdda speed=8) clears it up, but this seems odd to me,
> since should anything better than realtime be able to fill the buffer?
>
> It seems to be that my CD-ROM reads out enough data to fill the buffer,
> then while waiting to read more, it spins down. By the time it gets the next
> read command, it can't spin up fast enough and find where to read from
> before the buffer empties and the music stops. I thought it was a problem
> with the CD-ROM so I tried playing in Xine and like you, I found there are
> no problems. Very odd.
>
> Still stranger, I know it didn't always do this. I was able to play back
> CDs with the drive ticking over at 2x, with the read light blinking almost
> steadily. Now it seems to read a strip to fill the buffer, then wait for the
> buffer to get down to 15% before attempting to read more. I believe I've
> tried to lower the cache or even remove it, but that just ends in disaster
> all around.
>
> Anyone have an ideas, especially some setting I may have made with hdparm
> that I didn't think mattered but it turns out made a big difference? Oh yes,
> this happens in Freevo and on the command line, so it's definitely something
> to do with MPlayer, or some other external widget.
>
> Thanks guys.
>
> James
>
>
>
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