Re: [Freedos-user] CD skips when playing
That brings me to my other question, is it possible to configure MPXPLAY to play a file or playlist and then close automatically after it's done? I was going to look at the manual but I haven't had time, and I didn't remember seeing it in there before when I looked, so forgive me if I just missed it. Yes, I am using it everytime... since I am not using my normal PC I am not sure but search -X in the manual (there are some options with -X... , one should it be.) Bye Flo -- Florian Xaver Wien/Vienna http://www.drdos.org - http://www.flox.at.tf - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] CD skips when playing
Yep, I looked in the manual and there are actually several options to do that. -db will open a regular MPXPLAY... window, or whatever, without the file browser, and then close when the playlist/files are done playing; then there's another one, I forget what, that stops it after a certain number of tracks. Thanks. :) Skyler On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 4:43 AM, Florian Xaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That brings me to my other question, is it possible to configure MPXPLAY to play a file or playlist and then close automatically after it's done? I was going to look at the manual but I haven't had time, and I didn't remember seeing it in there before when I looked, so forgive me if I just missed it. Yes, I am using it everytime... since I am not using my normal PC I am not sure but search -X in the manual (there are some options with -X... , one should it be.) Bye Flo -- Florian Xaver Wien/Vienna http://www.drdos.org - http://www.flox.at.tf - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] CD skips when playing
Thanks for your answer, Eric. I tried disabling CDRCACHE, but it didn't make a difference. It's a pretty low-end laptop, so I wouldn't be surprised if the CD drive was too slow. I actually wondered about that after I sent the email. I guess I'll just have to rip the CD to MP3 on a different computer, then copy it to the hard drive to play the CDs. It seems to copy data OK. That brings me to my other question, is it possible to configure MPXPLAY to play a file or playlist and then close automatically after it's done? I was going to look at the manual but I haven't had time, and I didn't remember seeing it in there before when I looked, so forgive me if I just missed it. :) Skyler - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] CD skips when playing
Let's see... to play audio, a CD drive has to read at 1x. I doubt the drive is too slow. It should be possible to have the hardware in the drive play audio, but if it's extracting data and playing through the sound card, that's going to take IDE, memory and I/O bandwidth, and that could easily be a problem on an old machine. However, if it's old enough to have that problem, it may be slow to play an MP3 file too. MP3 playback requires about a 75MHz Pentium doing nothing else, IIRC. Chris On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Skyler Orlando [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your answer, Eric. I tried disabling CDRCACHE, but it didn't make a difference. It's a pretty low-end laptop, so I wouldn't be surprised if the CD drive was too slow. I actually wondered about that after I sent the email. I guess I'll just have to rip the CD to MP3 on a different computer, then copy it to the hard drive to play the CDs. It seems to copy data OK. That brings me to my other question, is it possible to configure MPXPLAY to play a file or playlist and then close automatically after it's done? I was going to look at the manual but I haven't had time, and I didn't remember seeing it in there before when I looked, so forgive me if I just missed it. :) Skyler - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] CD skips when playing
Hi! I guess I'll just have to rip the CD to MP3 on a different computer You can also rip on the same computer - no problem if it takes longer than the playing time of the CD. But rip to OGG, it is a more free format :-). That brings me to my other question, is it possible to configure MPXPLAY to play a file or playlist and then close automatically after it's done? You should look at the manual, it is quite possible that it works ;-) I mean mpxplay even supports printer port attached LCD displays... :-) Eric - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] CD skips when playing
MP3s play just fine, from the hard drive. I don't recall if they play properly from the CD or not. I'm thinking they were still jerky, but I'll check to make sure this evening. Skyler On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Chris Schumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Let's see... to play audio, a CD drive has to read at 1x. I doubt the drive is too slow. It should be possible to have the hardware in the drive play audio, but if it's extracting data and playing through the sound card, that's going to take IDE, memory and I/O bandwidth, and that could easily be a problem on an old machine. However, if it's old enough to have that problem, it may be slow to play an MP3 file too. MP3 playback requires about a 75MHz Pentium doing nothing else, IIRC. Chris On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Skyler Orlando [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your answer, Eric. I tried disabling CDRCACHE, but it didn't make a difference. It's a pretty low-end laptop, so I wouldn't be surprised if the CD drive was too slow. I actually wondered about that after I sent the email. I guess I'll just have to rip the CD to MP3 on a different computer, then copy it to the hard drive to play the CDs. It seems to copy data OK. That brings me to my other question, is it possible to configure MPXPLAY to play a file or playlist and then close automatically after it's done? I was going to look at the manual but I haven't had time, and I didn't remember seeing it in there before when I looked, so forgive me if I just missed it. :) Skyler - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Those who do not become dishonest or hostile are the most difficult to debate. Addressing others in a respectful and considerate manner conveys favorable impressions of their belief system. Providing rational answers to questions creates positive image of the person and their beliefs. Thank goodness there are very few such members and they are greatly outnumbered by those who are irrational, rabid, intolerant, and disrespectful. - An atheist - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] CD skips when playing
Hi Skyler, When I try to play an audio CD with MPXPLAY, it skips frequently and CDRCACHE displays an error message which takes over the screen unless I turn it (CDRCACHE) on quiet mode. The error message is CDRCACHE: raw/RedBook not cached 0001. Interesting. MPXPLAY uses the general raw cdrom driver interface :-) Actually you do not HAVE to read the raw data to play it - you can also tell the cdrom drive to play audio itself. However, the latter only works if you have a connection between your cd/dvd drive and your soundcard plugged in. So MPXPLAY prefers to fetch the data as data and then turn it into sound data for the soundcard instead... My tiny cdrom2ui player for example uses soundcard cable style. It repeats this message over and over, ad nauseum, making a mess of my display. I suspect the two problems are connected (skipping and the error message) and they probably have something to do with not having enough memory; am I correct? Is there an update I can install to fix the problem, or will I need to upgrade my hardware? This should not be related to memory... Does the skipping stop when you set cdrcache to quiet mode? If your cdrcache device is CDRCACH$ then you would say echo Q CDRCACH$ for that, but you can also try echo 0 CDRCACH$ to disable the cache while using MPXPLAY (you can re-enable it with echo 1 CDRCACH$). Other useful cache commands: F flush, S stats, I detailled status, C clear stats, N normal (as opposed to quiet), V verbose, ? help. If you can read enough of the messages even while MPXPLAY plays the audio cd, you could check if cdrcache verbose mode has any interesting messages about what is going on :-). But I think the basic problem is that MPXPLAY reads the audio CD as raw data and CDRCACHE has the bad habit to show many messages about that. I should probably reconfigure the message about raw reads so that it is only shown in verbose mode. On the other hand, it MIGHT be of some use to make cdrcache able to cache raw data. Probably not. Eric ;-) PS: You can also check if the skipping stops if you do not use cdrcache at all. If you still have skipping, then maybe your drive does not want to give you enough raw read speed - maybe trying to annoy people who rip their audio CD to mp3 or ogg. Last but not least, high activity on another drive which uses the same IDE cable as your CD drive could cause slowdown, too. PPS: For SATA CD/DVD drives and writers, try GCDROM or UIDE. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
