Anyone have an idea for this one?? I've been experencing choppy mp3 playback when running wireless. Hardwire playback, via cat5e, is perfect.
The server/client involved are gentoo. The software versions are: kde 3.2.0, kernel 2.6.2, samba 3.0.1 on both ends. Hardware of the client is a presario 700us running the alsa snd_via82xxx driver with the ac97 codec. I use alsa as the OSS drivers won't detect the laptop hardware.... Orinoco Gold pcmcia card which is a 802.b running at 11mbit, processor is an AMD 1.2gig with 256meg memory... Anyways, the problem shows it's ugly head anytime I try to play mp3's when running wirelessly. Using KDE and JUK, the mp3 begins to play like normal then pauses briefly and begins to play again. The same thing happens with MPG123 or MPG321 when run without KDE. This occurs all the way through the playback. During the pauses, I have noticed that there's a bit of activity with the connection led's of the Orinoco. I would assume that the player runs out of data stream and pulls more off the server via the wireless. When this happens, the music playback stops until the buffer fills and then playback resumes nornally... If I unplug the Orinoco and plug into the network viat cat5e, playback is perfect, no drop outs or any problems... I've dug all around the net, looking for a way to either increase the buffer size in the orinoco or in juk... I've looked for ways to increase the priority of the pcmcia-cs drivers... I've tried to renice the involved processes, but no change is noted. I've expiremented with the buffers in samba.... I've done as much as I can do to iron this one out and now I'm asking for a bit of help from anyone that may have a solution. Thank you, in advance. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
