Guillermo Belli wrote:
>
> This impressed me as well, at first. I wanted to know if the CPU recieved
> a heavy load while playing MP3s the song would skip, so I listened to some
> MP3s while compiling the kernel at the same time..... and you guessed it!
> No skipping, the playback was uninterrupted. This is what I call a REAL
> multitasking OS.
>
> Uhmm, please write in plain text, no HTML
I would imagine this would have alot to do with the prebuffering done
more than anything. I know the KDE mp3 player buffers around 300K to
allow for busy processors. I _think_ you can also adjust the buffering
in the WinAMP player.
> El mi�, 27 oct 1999, escribiste:
> >
> > I just had to make a post about this because Linux impressed me when it comes to
>playing Mp3's on my computer. I used to listen to them in Win98 when I was surfing
>the Internet and everytime I changed to a new web page, there seemed to be a loss of
>'processing power' taken away from the Mp3 player I was using (Winamp). This was
>causing the music to skip or come to a halt momentarily and then start playing again.
> I remember that someone else was having the same problem and had enquired about it.
>They had recieved a reply that explained how Win9x wasn't able to deal with the two
>tasks (web browsing and Mp3 song being played) very well and that was the reason for
>the poor playback of. Anyhow, I have been listening to Mp3's inside of Mandrake 6.1
>and browsing the web without the music being interrupted at all. I like that.:)
> >
> > -Bill
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