Nick Kay wrote:
>
> At 10:21 24/03/99 -0800, you wrote:
> >>At 13:19 23/03/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >>>My CPU speed is a little ole 486 DX2/66. I have a feeling that this
> might be
> >>>the problem. I am not really sure about what you told me to try. Should
> that
> >>>be typed in exactly like that at the command line?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Ooops. I think you're out of luck here. I get stuttering on my 450mhz
> >>Celeron -
> >>I'm surprised a dx2-66 is able to play *anything* :)
> >>Time for a hardware upgrade - look out for a secondhand p200.
> >
> >Stuttering on your 450 Celery (oops, I mean celeron..) that shouldn't
> >happen, i'm running a 166MX( running at 200 MMX) and I don't have a problem!
> >
>
> It happens when there's heavy graphics activity such as Netscape scrolling or
> changing to another virtual screen. There was a thread on the Caldera
> list which seemed to be of the opinion that the PCI bus was getting scragged
> if you don't have an AGP card. If I don't do any work then the mp3s
> come out fine. Not a huge worry.
You might consider trying out kmp3. It uses mpg123 as a backend for mp3
playing and also allows you to use an input buffer so you don't get the
skipping during a heavy load. I had the same problems with skipping if
I scrolled down a page in Netscape, but don't have any problems now with
an input buffer of around 1M.
I don't have an exact URL for kmp3, but you should be able to find
references to it on http://www.kde.org and http://freshmeat.net.
--
Steve Philp
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