Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 02:59:32 +0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto 70CT - mp3 player
From: "Jon DuQueno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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.
Wow.... I'm stumped now. I've read posts from people having similar
problems with their Libbys and have never understood it. Why should one
70CT system loaded with W98SE play audio fine, and another not??
You didn't mention anything about sound in DOS for Doom. Did that in fact
work for you?
I checked
Toshiba power save and processor is set to full speed.
You're looking at those settings in the Toshiba 'Power Saving Properties'...
right?
Idle CPU 10% and
unused physical Memory 2.4Mb (using system monitor). Is this normal
performance for a 70CT?
Is that with no apps running? I'm not quite sure what you've got System
Monitor set to, but with 'Add Item > Kernal > Processor Usage (%)' set on my
70, and nothing running. I'm getting a green line that is maxed at 100%. It
seems to stay there when I run apps too. I don't see a setting in SM
specifically for idle CPU usage.
With nothing running, SM shows about 5Mb unused physical memory on my 70.
I'll admit, I'm not sure what that represents. When I open Eudora, that
drops to near zero. Starting Winamp, it stays at zero. But closing Winamp
causes it to pop up to 3.7Mb. Then closing Eudora pushes it up to 8.8Mb.
I'll confess again that I'm not one of the more technically informed people
on the Lib list here. Philip, David, Raymond and a number of other regulars
are a lot better at this stuff than I.
And I'm really not quite sure what all you're looking at there. Anyone else
see something that's not clicking for me here?
is there anything I can do to improve mp3 playback?
Could any bios settings be having an affect on performance.
No... there's nothing BIOS can help with to my knowledge.
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.
Well.. I just loaded an old 3 minut 50MB .mpg file onto my 70 to confirm
what I was pretty sure about. It plays as it did before, good audio but
choppy video just as I remembered. But it didn't lock up. Video files are
extremely finicky. Especially newer .avi DivX and Xvid encoded files.
Those two can cripple a more powerful system that's got problems with system
resources. The Mpeg you have may be too much for the 70 to handle.
Download Gspot and check to see that the system has the proper codecs
installed to support the mpeg file you're trying to play.
But I did just encounter a video/audio problem playing that .mpg on my 70
I've never gotten resolved. I keep getting mouse conflicts with multimedia
playback on both my 70 and 100. As long as the file plays the mouse is
useless. I have to use the keyboard to control both Winamp and WMP. Really
frustrating.
Don't want to try overclocking just yet, soldering in a
machine I only just got is a little scary.
You know... I've found that reinstalling Windows 98 can fix things after a
previous successful installation fails to run things properly. You may want
to try that again. Otherwise I'm sure some other list members will have
some feedback for you.
Will Office 2000 run ok?
That's a question for someone else.
Matt
Wanted: 110 motherboard or bare bones 110 system
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