What about playing mp3s that are on your local drive?
My sound skibbles terrbly and I cannot even play the dam things
unless I shut down to maintenance mode.
and downsample to 22050.
I have a AMD4864-133Mhz with 32meg ram
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> > > How fast of a machine do you have?
> >
> > When I first started playing Mp3's on my machine, it was a Pentium 166 with
> > 80 megs of RAM. Now it's a PIII 450 with 128 m/RAM. Both machines gave me
> > the same problem. When I upgraded to the PIII 450, I expected the problem
> > to go away but it didn't.
> >
> > -Bill
>
> Since mp3's have become popular, I've had a P200 @ 225, a
> PII 350 @ 467, now a PIII 450 @ 505 soon to be a PIII 450 @608.
> All have had lot'sa ram, and all have had a 28,8 connection. I
> live in a rural area of Arkansas and my phone lines are the
> limiting factor.
>
> Every one of these system's has pauses (while buffering)
> playing mp3's off the Net. So much so that all I can viably
> do is download the mp3's (about 3k/sec) and then play 'em.
> I don't believe a lot of cpu horespower/ram is needed to play
> mp3's ..... just good phone lines ;-)
>
> MOF, only flying planes justifies the cpu horsepower I want ...
> and it never seems to be enough :)
> --
> .. Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
>
> > > On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> > > > >%_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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> > > Vic
> > > Student Of Linux
> > >
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