Subject: RE: Does anyone have a solution for mp3 playback skipping in xmms? From: "Kwan Lowe" <kwan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Reply-To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 12:29:25 -0500 (EST)
Thirdly (is that a word?) I have installed the xmms-mp3 package and can playback mp3s. Lastly I may not have been clear enough, I can listen to mp3s they just skip.
You can try adjusting the buffer size of the audio output plugin. For example, if using ESD:From XMMS, go to Preferences.Go to Audio I/O Plugins Under the Output Plugin, select your output then click configure. Go to the Buffering tab and increase the buffer size.
Yes, Buffers are always a good thing.
Check to see if it has flags like xmms.... use_realtime=FALSE Realtime may require suid root but it can clear up contention for cycles as long as realtime is not misused by other stuff. Also turn off nifty eyecandy graphics.
BE WARNED: that realtime priority is run with root privileges and while usefull can lock up the machine. Consider that the window system and the shell must run too. If you do not have enough spare cycles realtime is very bad. See the man pages for: nice, renice, getpriority(2), setpriority(2).
It is commonly better to push some of the contention from long running tasks down rather than raise one special process to godlike status.
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