I think you guys are just suffering from latency spikes. Three suggestions:
A) user a bigger buffer (check manual for your app to see if it can do this). B) Run the task with higher than normal priority. e.g.: $ sudo nice -10 mpg123 blah.mp3 C) Use a low-latency kernel and a properly-designed application which can take advantage of SCHED_FIFO (requires root privileges). More info: http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/quality/#dropouts Also read the section after that about latency. Video-related problems may be due to the video card playing unfairly with the PCI bus. (I'm told this doesn't apply to AGP cards.) http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/quality/#videocards All that said, I have an Envy24-based card (M-audio Delta 66) and I don't get dropouts from it with simple jobs like mp3 playback on my PIII-866 box. Couldn't get it to work with Return to Castle Wolfenstein, though. Maybe the Delta just doesn't look enough like a Soundblaster. :) For that (and CD playback) I'm using an old turtle beach ISA card, which works fine. BTW, I had to spend quite some time tuning the graphics settings on RTCW. Sound playback was very glitchy until I did this, now it's rock solid. I expect it's because I was overloading my CPU. --PW _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
