On Wednesday 21 September 2005 03:30, Matt Garman wrote: > I installed jack (jack-audio-connection-kit), and configured it, as > far as I can tell, correctly. At least I can get multiple audio > streams multiplexed together. > > However, the performance leaves something to be desired: it is > *extremely* prone to skipping, if my system is under any kind of > load. For example, doing an "emerge search <package>" will usually > cause my XMMS playback to skip. *Moving a window* will almost > always cause a skip---not just skip, but freeze for the whole time > the window is being moved. Even worse, whenever the screensaver > comes on, the player skips. And while the screensaver is active, > the music playback will regularly skip every couple seconds. The > kicker? My screensaver is just a blank screen! > > I'd like to think that my system is powerful enough to do "normal" > desktop use without skipping: Athlon XP 2500, 1 GB RAM. > > Any thoughts as to why the jack performance is so shoddy? >
do you get this skips also with alsaplayer or amarok? xmms is a little bit skippy, but I never had skips with the other two. Oh, and when you just want to mulitplex together - shouldn't the dmix alsa plugin all you need? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
