Carlo Orecchia wrote: > i have problems using real player 10 with the nforce sound chipset. If I > use a sound card like a creative pci 64 everything works fine. But with > the onboard sound chipset real player hangs at some point when reproducing > a file. The audio stops and the image is played very very slow. > Does anybody have any clue why this is happening? I asked: > Can you take a look at the top program (from the shell) while you're > using "Real Player"? > > I'd be interested to note what happens to the CPU percentages: does the > system spend a long time under "sy"stem, or is it all "us"er? > > Also keep an eye on exactly which programs are taking up system time. > > Are you playing "Real Media", or are you playing MP3s? He replied: > this is my ps aux > > carlo 8376 0.0 0.1 4376 1056 ? S 22:43 0:00 /bin/sh > /usr/bin/realplay > carlo 8381 1.3 1.7 55672 13296 ? Sl 22:43 0:01 > /usr/local/bin/realplay.bin > carlo 8383 0.0 0.6 22200 5220 ? S 22:43 0:00 > /usr/local/bin/realplay.bin > carlo 8384 0.0 0.6 22200 5220 ? S 22:43 0:00 > /usr/local/bin/realplay.bin Interesting, but not sufficient. If you aren't sure what I was looking at in top, can you start playing something, run vmstat 5 5 from the command line and post the results? I can't see whether you are CPU limited, and if so, what the CPU is doing. > i play real media and mp3s. For both the problem is the same. Whem i play > mp3 is very low and the commands are executed seconds after. > I don't understand why if i change sound card i have no problems. > Could it be because the sound chipset i use has very poor drivers? I can't > mix channels for example and so i can't execute 2 or more sounds at the > same time. For good measure, could you post the results of lsmod please? I want to see which module you're using for sound. Thanks, James. -- E-mail address: james | USER ERROR: replace user and press any key @westexe.demon.co.uk | to continue.
