From kde-multimedia Fri Jul 20 17:45:04 2001 From: Rik Hemsley Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:45:04 +0000 To: kde-multimedia Subject: Re: mp3 decoder clicks? X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-multimedia&m=99568872526681 #if Charles Samuels > I think the main difference comes with the fact xmms can buffer much more > than a second or two, while artsd can't. That means that mpeglib has to keep > up with the "smaller but more frequent" requests for data, and IDE is more > cpu consuming, and possibly higher-latency. IDE works much better with arts if you use DMA, the 'unmaskirq' switch and 32-bit async transfers. Actually, the whole system works more smoothly. Some day Linux will need to detect the IDE chipset and if it's not a dodgy one, switch these things on by default. Of course, despite having these three things switched on, a fast IDE disk, a fast processor and a bog standard sound card, I still can't avoid dropout when using arts (no, I'm not running it suid again because last time it hung the machine), nor can I avoid it eating all CPU and making X say that it's run out of clients when I use the ALSA driver. But then that's my fault for using weird hardware: IDE disks, an Intel processor, an ASUS motherboard and a SoundBlaster ;) Rik _______________________________________________ Kde-multimedia mailing list Kde-multimedia@master.kde.org http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-multimedia