Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] trying the impossible? music skipping and jumping

2009-01-18 Thread bouton
Thanks for off of your help. I tried and tried. Learned way much more than I ever wanted to know about Linux. Gave up and installed it onto the flash drive of the T5720 - AND IT STILL DIDN'T Work!. So took the hd, put it into another pc - and guess what - it was the HD that was corrupted. I just h

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] trying the impossible? music skipping and jumping

2009-01-17 Thread wactuary
One more thought - the SliMP3 was from 2001. Is it able to support VBR encoded MP3s? Back then, I think it was more common to use CBR and I remember a lot of issues with players not understanding both formats. Is Squeezecenter constantly firing lame to decode and recode your VBR mp3s into CBR m

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] trying the impossible? music skipping and jumping

2009-01-17 Thread wactuary
Have you tried top? Type top in a terminal window. You should then see all the processes and how much space and cpu they are taking. You can sort it by CPU or memory. It dynamically adjusts to the current usage. (btw, if you don't see lame on the list, then it's not transcoding. if you do, it

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] trying the impossible? music skipping and jumping

2009-01-15 Thread bouton
Kvaks;384884 Wrote: > Then just set it to 320, which is maximum for MP3s. When you do this, > Squeezecenter won't have to transcode the music before transmitting to > your player, and it should all play much more smoothly (hopefully). I had it set that way originally and changed it when problems

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] trying the impossible? music skipping and jumping

2009-01-15 Thread Kvaks
bouton;384802 Wrote: > if you mean under basic settings->player->audio->bitrate limiting then > no - only a list of numbers/rates 64-320 to choose from and I have it > set at 128 > > if you mean under advance->network->max wma stream bitrate then yes it > is set at no limit and all my music is m

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] trying the impossible? music skipping and jumping

2009-01-15 Thread bouton
Uluen;384772 Wrote: > In my settings I can select "No Limit", you don't have that? if you mean under basic settings->player->audio->bitrate limiting then no - only a list of numbers/rates 64-320 to choose from and I have it set at 128 if you mean under advance->network->max wma stream bitrate t

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] trying the impossible? music skipping and jumping

2009-01-14 Thread Uluen
bouton;384510 Wrote: > How do I set it to no bitrate limiting? choices given are 64-320 under > player->audio > > thanksIn my settings I can select "No Limit", you don't have that? -- Uluen SYSTEM: MUSIC -> EARS http://www.last.fm/user/Uluen --

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] trying the impossible? music skipping and jumping

2009-01-14 Thread bouton
richardsk;384307 Wrote: > Hi Katherine, > is that 98% swap free or used? if you've running out of swap space > things can get a bit strange. > > Did you disable the linux services you're not using ? (this may free up > some memory) > > regards > Richard swap space used. Again, the only thing I

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] trying the impossible? music skipping and jumping

2009-01-14 Thread radish
bouton;384065 Wrote: > I set the player->audio->bitrate to 128 (with LAME noted as installed > correctly) and Lame quality=9 > Why are you bitrate limiting? If the source files are mp3 the slimp3 should play without transcoding. You'd save a ton of CPU and some memory too. -- radish

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] trying the impossible? music skipping and jumping

2009-01-14 Thread richardsk
Hi Katherine, is that 98% swap free or used? if you've running out of swap space things can get a bit strange. Did you disable the linux services you're not using ? (this may free up some memory) regards Richard -- richardsk

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] trying the impossible? music skipping and jumping

2009-01-13 Thread bouton
There are so many logs I am never sure which to set for debug. But setting adv->server set logs->apply the logs server.log and perfmon.log are empty. using the system monitor i read cpu between 50 and 65% sometime up to 75% - but the peak is not when the music goes wobbly. Memory 71%, Swap 98.5%

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] trying the impossible? music skipping and jumping

2009-01-13 Thread Uluen
Anything in the SC logs? -- Uluen SYSTEM: MUSIC -> EARS http://www.last.fm/user/Uluen Uluen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12166 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t

[SlimDevices: Unix] trying the impossible? music skipping and jumping

2009-01-13 Thread bouton
I may be trying the impossible, but I really want it to work. You may recall previously I said I had successfully installed linux/squeezecenter on a pendrive and was running it off a thin client hpt5720. Well almost! It works fine for radio etc but if i tried to play music - very weird things