Re: is there a buffer?

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Lucas Vogel <lucas7@home.com> wrote on Sat, 09 Sep 2000:
> I am using Afterstep 1.8.1 on SuSE 6.4. I seem to have problems with playing
> mp3's while dragging windows around. I use FreeAmp to play music, and whenever I
> drag a Netscape window or something it seems to screw up FreeAmp's buffer,
> making it play like a skipping CD.

I have a similar problem.  Whenever there is a large screen update (I
switch pages with the pager, or a large xterm window is being completely
redrawn, etc.) there is skipping with mp3 playing.  I think this is
because of a DMA "conflict" -- the screen update uses DMA for the
update, and while this is happening the mp3 player software can't use
DMA for the sound playing.

At least, that's the best reasoning I've come up with.  As for a
solution, I'd love to hear one...  The skipping is definitely annoying.


Mikko
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