I had a problem with cd skipping, but I was able to solve it by adding
the following:
MPLAYER_ARGS['cd'] = '-cache 2048 -cache-min 80'
On 11/17/2010 11:25 PM, James Trietsch wrote:
From:
Paul <strifek...@users.sourceforge.net>
To:
freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Fri, November
12, 2010 11:49:58 AM
Subject:
[Freevo-users] Xine audio stream metadata
I have set up arch linux on a new hard drive to run freevo 1.9 and
found to my dismay that mplayer still has the same issues it had on
Ubuntu (skipping stuttering play of CD's and audio files) I thought
this was due to pulse audio on Ubuntu but clearly not. Thus I will have
to return to Xine for audio playing which is fine except I have never
been able to get Freevo to broadcast audio stream metadata (song tite,
artist) from Icecast/shoutcast stations using Xine, however with
Mplayer it works fine. Has anyone had success with this?
Paul:
What kind of skipping and stuttering are you having playing CDs in
mplayer? I have a problem where the buffer runs out while playing,
although not until after track 3 or 4 on any given disc. It's not a
stutter so much as a gap in playback about 5 seconds long while the
drive gets sorted out and starts reading data again. Setting a bigger
cache helps a little, setting the CD speed to around 8x (-cdda speed=8)
clears it up, but this seems odd to me, since should anything better
than realtime be able to fill the buffer?
It seems to be that my CD-ROM reads out enough data to fill the buffer,
then while waiting to read more, it spins down. By the time it gets the
next read command, it can't spin up fast enough and find where to read
from before the buffer empties and the music stops. I thought it was a
problem with the CD-ROM so I tried playing in Xine and like you, I
found there are no problems. Very odd.
Still stranger, I know it didn't always do this. I was able to play
back CDs with the drive ticking over at 2x, with the read light
blinking almost steadily. Now it seems to read a strip to fill the
buffer, then wait for the buffer to get down to 15% before attempting
to read more. I believe I've tried to lower the cache or even remove
it, but that just ends in disaster all around.
Anyone have an ideas, especially some setting I may have made with
hdparm that I didn't think mattered but it turns out made a big
difference? Oh yes, this happens in Freevo and on the command line, so
it's definitely something to do with MPlayer, or some other external
widget.
Thanks guys.
James
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