"=?UTF-8?Q?Canek_Pel=C3=A1ez_Vald=C3=A9s?=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:20:30 -0600:
> I upgrade to stable gentoo-sources when they come out, but the latency > and priority options in my kernel are the same. Besides, nice -n -20 > madplay doesn't solves the problem. You probably know this, but you didn't say, and to be sure... As root, or with the appropriate capacities, right? Because regular users aren't normally allowed to decrease niceness (increase priority), only increase niceness (decrease priority). So if you were trying nice -n -20 it as a regular user (without any additional caps), it'd only schedule it at zero, which is what it would normally run at, so no difference would be expected, regardless. Anyway, if it was working before, it's unlikely that's it, just possible. I'd guess it's a sample rate issue instead. That is, unless you tried the tickless kernel option or modified Hz, or possibly if you switched scheduler or kernel or something. Just to see, you could /try/ compiling the kernel with Hz=1000 and tickless turned off. I doubt it'll do any good, but if it does, you /know/ it's a scheduling issue. Another just-in-case question. You aren't trying to run some fancy visualization are you? OTOH, you tried several players so I don't know how that could be it. Just trying to think of things... As for gstreamer itself, I never had any luck with it. Just wouldn't work for me, probably because I didn't have it configured right, but since I'm a KDE person, it wasn't a high priority to get it configured right, and I eventually just unmerged it. So I can't be of any help at all to you on that angle. Except... if it has a configurable audio buffer size, you might try increasing that. I know arts did on the KDE side, but it has been unmaintained for some time and I found it easier just to run without arts as well -- FAR FAR less trouble that way, once I figured out how to get the knotify sounds playing without it. Hopefully these rather shots in the dark help, or someone else can... It still sounds like a sample rate or similar incompatibility to me, tho. If I used the same software, I might be able to tell you what to do to change that, or if it's even possible, but I don't, so again, hopefully someone else can help you there 'cause I can't. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [email protected] mailing list
