Re: Songs glitching over samba

On Mon, 9 May 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Håvard Kvålen wrote:

> On Sun, 8 May 2005, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
>
>> When I play these songs, I get glitches every 10-20 seconds: the playback
>> pauses for a fraction of a second, just long enough to become very
>> annoying after a minute or so.  The glitches correspond in time with the
>> network-activity light flashing on my wireless card.
>
> What output plugin are you using?  All output plugins do some buffering,
> and the amount is usually configurable too.
>
> This sounds slightly like a hardware issue, i.e. that there is some kind
> of interaction issue between the sound card and the network card, but do
> try to increase the buffering somewhat and see if that helps.

Thanks for the idea; I am the libALSA.so output plugin.  It has adjustable 
buffering, but even setting it as high as 50000 ms has no effect.  I 
didn't bother trying higher values than that, since I still get glitches 
before the 50-second mark when playing songs.

Any ideas what I can look at in terms of sound card / network card 
interactions?  it seems like it's the job of the audio application to 
insulate itself from network problems, not vice versa -- and the network 
is generally of high reliability.

Thanks for your response,
Brandon

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