Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 02:53:50 +0100 From: "Jon DuQueno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto 70CT - mp3 player
Hi, I've got 32MB RAM and I'm trying to play 192kbps mp3's. Windows media player 6 maxes out the CPU with 4.8MB unused physical memory and sounds very choppy. Win 5.x wouldn't play mp3's. I tried Windows media player 9 but it was hopeless. Winamp 2.8 just about plays ok with 75% CPU and maxed out physical memory. VLC media player is just as bad as Windows media player 6. I have tried killing everything in task manager but doesn't make any difference, not much running anyway since it's a new install. I checked Toshiba power save and processor is set to full speed. Idle CPU 10% and unused physical Memory 2.4Mb (using system monitor). Is this normal performance for a 70CT? is there anything I can do to improve mp3 playback? Could any bios settings be having an affect on performance. Tried playing an mpeg video (16MB / 3 min) in windows media player 6 and computer locked up... Maybe I have just reached the performance limit of this machine. Don't want to try overclocking just yet, soldering in a machine I only just got is a little scary. Will Office 2000 run ok? Jon D -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 October 2005 00:03 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto 70CT - Replacment hard drive? - Installing Win98se - MP3 Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:02:01 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto 70CT - Replacment hard drive? - Installing Win98se - MP3 Player >From: "Jon DuQueno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Success :P Terrific! (so far...) >Seems the problem was caused by using XP to format the primary partition in >Fat32. I tired re-formatting the primary partition in DOS (Fat16) on the >libretto then copying the files over in desktop and win 98 installed fine >:) >Think it was a problem with installing Win98 to a Fat32 partition. BTW I >checked in fdisk and the primary DOS partition was always set to active. Interesting, as previously you complained about not being able to, "switch to the c: drive... error "Invalid drive specification." That sure sounded like XP had done it on that occasion: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg15809.html >I've installed the Toshiba utils, got floppy drive working and most >importantly Doom 2 with sound :P Did you really get Doom to run with sound enabled? I had the darnest time with that on my 70 years back. As I've written, I hadn't bothered to install the Libretto sound drivers, as the ones from 98SE seemed to be working for everything else fine. But I couldn't get sound enabled in DOS until I finally installed them. >Tried playing some MP3's in Windows media player 6 and was disappointed >with >the choppy playback. Wow... It's so odd, but par for computers, that this happens for some people and not for others. I've never had problems with choppy audio playback from MP3s... well, unless a bunch of apps were getting loaded at boot, and sapping system resources. Antivirus apps are the biggest culprits. Try running Start > Run > MSCONFIG and seeing if there's anything in there you can disable. Or do an Ctrl-Alt-Del, and stop everything but 'Explorer' ... and you can leave 'SysTray'. If that doesn't free up enought resources to play MP3s, I'm not sure were to go from there. Oh... do you have the 16MB RAM upgrade to boost the L70 to 32MB RAM? >Also tried installing winamp 3 but it won't play any >MP3's... What media player is best? Should I download Windows Media 9 or >try >one of the older versions? The WMP in W98SE should work fine. Check your system resources and disable things as described above, and try it again. Winamp 3.x was a hog. Download the last version Winamp 5 that was released before they stopped development on it which was: winamp504_full.exe It went back to more of the the Winamp 2 model. You could try older versions of Winamp if that fails. >Is it worth installing the latest Toshiba sound and video drivers? The >windows 98se default drivers seem up to date anyhow... I don't think the Lib video drivers are necessary. And if you're getting sound in DOS from DOOM, I don't think you need to install the Lib audio drivers. >And one last thing, I can't find the little cable for the network card so >may have to buy another (I want windows updates, file transfer and web >browsing) does this look ok? >www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=31879&doy=19m10 "Compliant with PCMCIA 16-bit PC Card Standard" << Looks good. It's not a 32 bit cardbus card. Matt Wanted: 110 motherboard or bare bones 110 system Libretto list info: Libretto list archive #1: http://www.technoir.nu/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi Libretto list archive #2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/ To unsubscribe: http://www.technoir.nu/libretto/list/2004/msg01419.html
