On 5 Aug, Rodolfo Borges wrote:
> Hi all,
> 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.
We have added a PreBuffer option (check your .freeamp_prefs file) which
causes the soundcard thread to pause for that specified number of
milliseconds before playing the sound. This gives the decoder a chance
to decoder a few frames of audio before the sound starts. Increase that
value until the initial skip is gone.
> I also noticed that Freeamp needs libX11.so and libXext.so, even when using
> a console UI!
That is because of our plugin architecture -- all plugins are loaded at
runtime. (We're working to rectify this in the 2.0 release) To fix
this, simply delete the freeamp-linux.ui file from the plugsins
directory and you should be ok.
> 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.
Remove all the plugins from the plugins dir that you do not need. If
you are using OSS on linux, you'll only need the ui you intend to use,
the soundcard-linux.pmo and localinput-linux.pmi. All others should be
superflous.
--ruaok Freezerburn! All else is only icing. -- Soul Coughing
Robert Kaye -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://moon.eorbit.net/~robert
