At 13:25 25/03/99 -0500, you wrote:
>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.
>
>--
Cheers. I'll give that a go - as soon as I can get any
bandwidth out of my %^$* phone line :)
