Hi all,
I am building a _dedicated_ audio (basically mp3) player, and I decided
to use Linux and Freeamp.
Basically because both projects are in nice evolution, thanks to
the good development teams. ;)
I want to use the less possible resources, to keep the hardware cheep.
I'm currently using a 586 with only 4Mb of memory, and it is very close
to the limit on both CPU power and memory.
One problem is that in the first seconds of the first song played, the sound
gets chopped, probably because of the swap activity.
Is there an option to change the size of the buffers to avoid this?
I think I should use a smaller buffer, because there is no other application
competing with Freeamp.
I also noticed that Freeamp needs libX11.so and libXext.so, even when using
a console UI!
It would be nice if the Freeamp plugin system could produce a lighter
player, if you all you want only the basic features.
I dont use even the Playlist Manager. All it needs to do is play the
mp3s, and send/receive messages for the UI that I am writing.
I know that 8Mb or even 16Mb _is_ cheap, but the main problem is that
we want to have the fastest possible boot, and to start playing as soon
as possible. We're trying to make the lighter possible Linux
configuration, and when trying to reduce the startup time, we are talking
about seconds, and loosing some of these loading (and swaping!) large
useless library files _does_ matter.
Thank you,
Rodolfo Borges
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