On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:50:03 +0100 Al Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks. This sort of question is _much_ more likely to get a useful > answer. > > I've not looked into this directly, but IIRC there were reports of > pulseaudio doing sample rate conversion on almost everything that was > played, munching CPU in the process and not necessarily leaving enough > for smooth decode of the media file. The media player in 2007.2 was > apparently affected by this, but if patched to use alsa directly it was > fine. I can't verify this as I had gstreamer errors with the mp3 I tried > it with. I think pulseaudio has been dropped from 2008.8 and FSO because > of this. I don't know what the situation is with qtopia, but if you run > top while playing a file you should see if anything's hogging CPU. I > suggest you search the list archives for the original reports on this > issue as they probably contain details I've forgotten or got wrong ;-) > > mplayer by default plays directly through alsa so isn't affected by the > sound server issues. That you say sound is nearly perfect in this case > shows the hardware limitation isn't really the issue. > > I haven't looked closely at the whole media playback issue so I don't > know what the best solution is. If you're lucky someone who does might > read this, but you may be better off reposting with a more appropriate > subject line.
Already filed a bug on this : http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1956 the Mplayer on om2008 is directly connected to OSS not alsa, when i -ao alsa it becomes 'very sensible' to loads , audio stop and resumes even after each characters into terminals , strange ... -- Armin ranjbar , System Administrator _______________________________________________ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support