On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Todd Goodman wrote:
> OK. I understand that. What seems to be the problem is that when I run
> XMMS with the live-xmms plugin and it starts lame to encode it starves
> out the rest of the XMMS player (so that playback skips).
Have you checked what is happening with top? Are you short on
memory? Maybe it's swapping. This isn't really a lame problem, but a
general UNIX issue. Have you tried getting it to run lame with a lower
priority, using nice?
> However, if I run XMMS and playback and then run lame from a terminal
> window, it doesn't end up starving the XMMS player (playback is fine).
Again check what the difference in these two situations is, using top and
other diagnostic tools.
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