I don't know if I'm remotely right here but is an AMD4864-133 a pentium
class CPU? I know MAndrake is compiled for pentium class machines and I
have read that 486 machines can have some difficulties running Mandrake. If
your CPU isn't pentium class maybe that's causing, or contributing towards
the problem.
Aaron
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vic [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 1999 10:21 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Playing Mp3's...
>
> What about playing mp3s that are on your local drive?
> My sound skibbles terrbly and I cannot even play the dam things
> unless I shut down to maintenance mode.
> and downsample to 22050.
>
> I have a AMD4864-133Mhz with 32meg ram
>
>
> On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> > > > How fast of a machine do you have?
> > >
> > > When I first started playing Mp3's on my machine, it was a Pentium 166
> with
> > > 80 megs of RAM. Now it's a PIII 450 with 128 m/RAM. Both machines
> gave me
> > > the same problem. When I upgraded to the PIII 450, I expected the
> problem
> > > to go away but it didn't.
> > >
> > > -Bill
> >
> > Since mp3's have become popular, I've had a P200 @ 225, a
> > PII 350 @ 467, now a PIII 450 @ 505 soon to be a PIII 450 @608.
> > All have had lot'sa ram, and all have had a 28,8 connection. I
> > live in a rural area of Arkansas and my phone lines are the
> > limiting factor.
> >
> > Every one of these system's has pauses (while buffering)
> > playing mp3's off the Net. So much so that all I can viably
> > do is download the mp3's (about 3k/sec) and then play 'em.
> > I don't believe a lot of cpu horespower/ram is needed to play
> > mp3's ..... just good phone lines ;-)
> >
> > MOF, only flying planes justifies the cpu horsepower I want ...
> > and it never seems to be enough :)
> > --
> > .. Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
> >
> > > > On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> > > > > >%_I just had to make a post about this because Linux impressed me
> when
> > > it comes to playing Mp3's on my computer. I used to listen to them in
> Win98
> > > when I was surfing the Internet and everytime I changed to a new web
> page,
> > > there seemed to be a loss of 'processing power' taken away from the
> Mp3
> > > player I was using (Winamp). This was causing the music to skip or
> come to
> > > a halt momentarily and then start playing again. I remember that
> someone
> > > else was having the same problem and had enquired about it. They had
> > > recieved a reply that explained how Win9x wasn't able to deal with the
> two
> > > tasks (web browsing and Mp3 song being played) very well and that was
> the
> > > reason for the poor playback of. Anyhow, I have been listening to
> Mp3's
> > > inside of Mandrake 6.1 and browsing the web without the music being
> > > interrupted at all. I like that.:)
> > > > >
> > > > > -Bill
> > > > >
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> > > > --
> > > > Vic
> > > > Student Of Linux
> > > >
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> Vic
> Student Of Linux
