Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 08:47:18 +0000 From: barnacle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] echo indigo
On Saturday 06 November 2004 09:07, you wrote: > Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 01:07:05 -0800 (PST) > From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] echo indigo > > --- Stefan Katletz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > my 50ct is mostly running linux (debian sarge, > > though there is still a > > win98se installation lying around). I don't use X > > for mp3 playing, just > > text console and mp3blaster. But that takes most of > > the resources, doing > > anything else creates clicks/white noise (even > > though I overclocked it > > to 100MHz). > > That was my experience with Linux... tho' Neil did get > Mandrake set up on my 50 so that I could play MP3s in > the iceman X shell relatively well. iceman probably > drew as few resources as I'd guess an X shell can > manage. But the Windows virtual memory managment in > Win98 on the 50 did a better job. Still it was only > incrementally better. I could really only multitask > with simple programs like Notepad and Wordpad without > the MP3 playback dropping out. Yup, if you try something that needs a lot of processor time then something else is going to suffer. Windows *is not* a real-time operating system (nor linux) and without that guaranteed processing timeslice (and response time) it's always going to be non-stochastic. This 600MHz Portege doesn't even show the processor time on its display for an ogg playback, but every once in a while I'll start too many applications and it will run out of memory and have to do a swap to disk - pause - continue. > > > >digital music does not sound that good no matter > > >how you play it back. > > > > I can't complain about the quality, if you don't use > > the internal speaker :-). > > I think John is referring to the old school audiophile > beef with digital\CD\semiconductor audio playback vs. > analog\vinyl\tube based audio. Right John, or not? That would be the old linear conversion/uncompressed storage/linear amplifier vs. no conversion/frequency compressed/second harmonic distortion beef, no? <grin> must not go there... On the lib's built in sound cards, I find that the DAC/output amps are not brilliant and in particular can't easily cope with large swings rail to rail; they can't manage the slew rate. Keep the volume down, and preferably don't get onto bit 15, and the noise floor is still around -60dB if you amplify externally. > I'd be really interested in hearing whether or not > Linux on any of the Libs could power both WINE and > Foobar2000. Don't go there... you're running an emulation on top of an operating system already established as slower in some respects... Neil
