Re: xmms does not run smoothly

2006-05-26 Thread Dan Farrell
TED] On Behalf Of Antoine Jacoutot Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 3:04 AM To: Martin Toft Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: xmms does not run smoothly On Sun, 21 May 2006, Martin Toft wrote: > Actually, I already use the option "read info on load", so I do not > experience freezes when sc

Re: xmms does not run smoothly

2006-05-21 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Sun, 21 May 2006, Martin Toft wrote: Actually, I already use the option "read info on load", so I do not experience freezes when scrolling my playlist. However, the freezes appear frequently anyway, e.g. when xmms opens a dialog that reads directory information from the disk, and therefore s

Re: xmms does not run smoothly

2006-05-20 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/05/21 01:00, Martin Toft wrote: > I have not heard about librthread and would rather like to try another player > than > hacking xmms to get smoother sound on my system. Can you tell me more about > what is > being worked on and by who? You can read about rthreads here, http://www.open

Re: xmms does not run smoothly

2006-05-20 Thread Martin Toft
Thanks for the replies so far :) Sorry for not replying faster, but here goes: Emmanuel Jarri wrote: The workaround I use is to increase buffer size to its maximum, i.e. 13MB, with 50% to upper pre buffer. It works quite nicely, but I feel it's a dirty workaround... My xmms will not go higher

Re: xmms does not run smoothly

2006-05-18 Thread Greg Thomas
On 5/18/06, Felipe Scarel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have always had the suspection that desktop software like xmms and firefox run a bit slower on OpenBSD in comparison with other OS's, but never had a clue why it happened, or if it was only happening on my machine. I suspect (and may be comp

Re: xmms does not run smoothly

2006-05-18 Thread Greg Thomas
On 5/18/06, Martin Toft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, xmms on my computer freezes temporarily when doing disk-intensive tasks, e.g. examining the ID3-tags of a long playlist. It is not a serious problem, it just annoys me that my OpenBSD installation apparently does not perform as well as my fr

Re: xmms does not run smoothly

2006-05-18 Thread Felipe Scarel
I have always had the suspection that desktop software like xmms and firefox run a bit slower on OpenBSD in comparison with other OS's, but never had a clue why it happened, or if it was only happening on my machine. I suspect (and may be completely wrong) that it could be something regarding pro

Re: xmms does not run smoothly

2006-05-18 Thread Philip Guenther
On 5/18/06, Martin Toft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: xmms on my computer freezes temporarily when doing disk-intensive tasks, e.g. examining the ID3-tags of a long playlist. <...> While not a solution to the general problem of stuttering in xmms, the stuttering while scrolling your playlist is e

Re: xmms does not run smoothly

2006-05-18 Thread Doug Clements
My mistake. He appeared to be complaining about stuttering during other activities, only including reading id-3 tags as an example. --Doug On 5/18/06, Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/18/06, Doug Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Check this: http://www.geocities.com/phileosop

Re: xmms does not run smoothly

2006-05-18 Thread Ted Unangst
On 5/18/06, Doug Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Check this: http://www.geocities.com/phileosophos/tech/pcilatency.html totally irrelevant.

Re: xmms does not run smoothly

2006-05-18 Thread Doug Clements
Check this: http://www.geocities.com/phileosophos/tech/pcilatency.html --Doug On 5/18/06, Emmanuel Jarri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It was/is the case for me too ! :-( > The workaround I use is to increase buffer size to its maximum, i.e. 13MB, > with 50% to upper pre buffer. > It works quite

Re: xmms does not run smoothly

2006-05-18 Thread Ted Unangst
On 5/18/06, Martin Toft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: xmms on my computer freezes temporarily when doing disk-intensive tasks, e.g. examining the ID3-tags of a long playlist. It is not a serious problem, it just annoys me that my OpenBSD installation apparently does not perform as well as my friend'

Re: xmms does not run smoothly

2006-05-18 Thread Emmanuel Jarri
It was/is the case for me too ! :-( The workaround I use is to increase buffer size to its maximum, i.e. 13MB, with 50% to upper pre buffer. It works quite nicely, but I feel it's a dirty workaround... Nevertheless it allows me to play mp3 and ogg on my 700MHz Athlon with 384MB of RAM, even with

xmms does not run smoothly

2006-05-18 Thread Martin Toft
Hi, xmms on my computer freezes temporarily when doing disk-intensive tasks, e.g. examining the ID3-tags of a long playlist. It is not a serious problem, it just annoys me that my OpenBSD installation apparently does not perform as well as my friend's Debian GNU/Linux installation, which does