[oclug] Scratchy sounds from XMMS

[Andrew Hutton]

I believe you need a newer XMMS or ESD possibly.  I remember having this
discussion before with Telsa.

On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 11:03:58AM -0400, Jon Earle wrote:
> Well, I've got a p233MMX and an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite card.  I know the
> card is a little old but it works _really_ well in that other OS.  I
> expect it to work at least admirably under Linux - there's is no reason
> for it not to.  'Sides, it's only decoding an MP3 - how hard is that on a
> system?  (Not very.)
> 
> I worked around it by tuning the settings for XMMS's mpg123 plugin to use
> 8bit resolution vs 16bit (can someone explain what that means please).  It
> doesn't really sound any different, but the scratchiness seems gone.
> 
> That still doesn't answer the question of why XMMS plays MP3's with
> bonus static and other players don't.
> 
> What is this "realtime" priority - is it an XMMS option?
> 
> Cheers!
> Jon
> 
> 
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, James Leigh wrote:
> 
> > I had the same trouble with an old petium using xmms, but by running it as
> > root and giving it "real time" priority (in option box), xmms could play
> > mp3s quite well on the little machine.
> > 
> > On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 09:27:00 Taavi Burns wrote:
> > > I assume you've got enough CPU power to go around...
> > > (had that problem last night playing One Must Fall 2097...you'd think
> > > that
> > > a GHz proc would be able to handle the "pentium" class sound from 4 years
> > > ago...but nooooo)  ;)
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Jon Earle wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 08:13:35 -0400
> > > > From: Jon Earle <jearle at kronos.honk.org>
> > > > Reply-To: oclug at lists.oclug.on.ca
> > > > To: oclug at lists.oclug.on.ca
> > > > Subject: [oclug] Scratchy sounds from XMMS
> > > > 
> > > > XMMS 1.2.4 plays MP3s with terribly scratchy sound, while text based
> > > (almost
> > > > said DOS based) mpg123 plays 'em just fine.
> > > > 
> > > > Any ideas?
> > > > 
> > > > Cheers!
> > > > Jon
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
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> > > Taavi Burns
> > > 
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Andrew J. Hutton, 
Ottawa Linux Symposium, International Linux Developers Conference
http://www.linuxsymposium.org/    July 25th-28th, 2001