Nick Elvester wrote:
>
> 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.
That P75 is going to be pretty close, but might work okay if you bump up
the buffering, and bring the playback Hz back to around 22100... Check
the web for the mpg123 website. It's an excellent command-line player
and the documentation included with it has some CPU utilization numbers
for various processors.
For KDE use, I've been using Kmp3 with good performance. I _think_ I
recall it using mpg123 as a backend.
> >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?
> >> >
> >> >--
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> >> >
> >
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