> I have a SB Live! full version with both daugther
>cards and have found your guessing at the problem to
>be rather interesting. However, let me give you the
>real problem. The problem is that the sound card is a
>PCI device and as a result has to share the pci bus
>with lots of other devices. There is no real fix for
>the problem. I've found that a network card can cause
>the problem to occur more often than other cards (some
>cards can take priority thus causing the live to get
>delayed data). I was able to solve the skipping
>problem by moving my Live! over a PCI slot. It
>doesn't seem to be an issue with IRQ sharing either.
>It still shares an IRQ with other devices as it did
>before, but now I can't make it skip no matter how
>hard I try (that's a good thing).
>
> I can't really give you any more suggestions
>than shuffling your PCI cards around a bit. However
>if don't use anything else at the same time you should
>be sucessful with getting winamp to not skip on
>playback (unless your HD's controller is causing the
>problem).
That's all very well but i don't see how PCI congestion could make the MP3
stutter (repeat bits), I could understand it causing dropouts. It also does
this when it does something like loading an app.
I just had another idea, it could be hard disk congestion, when playing an
MP3 at about 160 Kbps it reads every 2 or 3 seconds, I've noticed that most
of the problems occur when the computer reads form or writes to the disk
(even if it's just the swap file).
>(p.s. a p100 has enough power to play back mp3's and
>run autocad 13 at the same time without skipping. I
>used to do it all the time)
maybe but can it load AutoCAD while it's playing MP3s without skipping? It
happens when you start or close apps, it does it to me all the time.
Christopher Spalding
Genius, generally excellent and gifted person.
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