On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 00:10, David E. Fox wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 01:21:33 +1100 > Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Well this is an AMD XP2800 with 512MB and a decent dual DDR mobo. I > > don't see any hesitancy and no load when idle, but I get skips galore > > on > > That's quite odd, as xmms is usually low latency on such a system. I > wonder if there might be something else that's amiss. Case in point, on > my AMD 1000 box recently, I experienced lots of skips recently playing > from a URL. This is fairly uncommon, even though I was encoding a VCD at > the same time. But that wasn't the problem - it was artsd. Darn thing > was eating up most of the cpu, and (2.6) kernel was spending a lto of > time in system mode. As a result, my system was barely usable, and the > encode ended up dropping way too many frames :(. Killing artsd made it > all better. > > > Brian Yeah - I've found artsd doing that sort of thing, so I have it disabled. Probably the real answer has something to do with the fact that the only output plugin that wants to work is OSS. The native ALSA stuff may do better, but XMMS just makes no sound or complains that something is blocking the output.
cheers Brian
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