Along the same lines, does anyone know how well a Pentium 75 would play
mp3's? I'm looking to have a possible dedicated mp3 machine for the
Hi-fi, but I haven't had the time to test the viability of it. Also,
I've had really good luck with the kmpg player, but it's nothing fancy.
>From: Steve Philp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [newbie] X11Amp Problem(s)....
>Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 23:22:46 -0500
>
>Adam Wright wrote:
>>
>> My CPU speed is a little ole 486 DX2/66. I have a feeling that this
might be
>> the problem. I am not really sure about what you told me to try.
Should that
>> be typed in exactly like that at the command line?
>
>Hmmm... I don't think all the perfect scheduling in the WORLD is going
>to help a DX2/66 play .mp3's decently. You might want to try something
>like mpg123 that'll allow buffering of the file so you don't get as
many
>skips. You'll probably even end up playing them at something around
>22kHz and mono... Been along time since I've owned a DX2/66.
>
>
>> >> Does anyone use X11Amp to play MP3 Files? I have it on my Linux
Mandrake
>> >> system. Whenever I try to run it it will load the file(s) and then
>> whenever
>> >> it trys to play them it plays little snippets (maybe 1 second or
less)
>> and
>> >> then stops and then again plays another segment. Is there some
setting I
>> can
>> >> adjust to cure this problem? At first I thought it was because I
was
>> tryig
>> >> to play them from my CD Rom (an older 6X) but I actually copied
some of
>> them
>> >> to the hard drive with the exact same results.
>> >
>> >Try this:
>> >
>> > chmod u+s /usr/X11R6/bin/x11amp
>> >
>> >If x11amp is SUID root, it's able to get better scheduling, so it
should
>> >play smoother. Give it a try.
>> >
>> >If it still skips and stutters, what speed is your CPU?
>> >
>> >--
>> >Steve Philp
>> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >
>
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