RE: Successful 4.0 install on z50; issue playing mp3s

Unfortunately, I've never been able to play mp3 audio successfully on my z50. Also, I highly doubt a pcmcia audio card will work, as I've not seen anything in the kernel config in terms of drivers, and also, I highly doubt they were 16-bit, non-cardbus cards.

But if anyone has had success playing mp3s, I'd love to hear about it too!


~k


> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:32:29 -0400
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Successful 4.0 install on z50; issue playing mp3s
>
> hi!
>
> i installed netbsd-hpcmips 4.0 on a z50 which has the extra memory
> card. i could not get the pbsdboot supplied with netbsd 4.0 to run
> under wince on this z50, but hpcboot worked. now my z50 successfully
> has compiled lots of software with pkgsrc. i thank all the developers
> who have made netbsd so terrific!
>
> a major issue i am experiencing is that when i tried to play an mp3
> the music was recognizable, but there are lots of hesitations and wow
> and flutter. for what it is worth, the problems seem significantly
> worse using mpg321 compared to either madplay or sox (play), both of
> which seem to work about equally poorly on my z50 here. the fractional
> load figures displayed by top while playing the mp3 suggest that the
> problems are not being caused by overloading. i found in the archives
> for this list both reports of success and reports of failure playing
> music on the z50 with different versions of netbsd-hpcmips.
>
> has anyone been successful playing mp3s on a z50 using the generic
> kernel supplied with netbsd-hpcmips 4.0? if yes, what player works for
> you?
>
> are there kernel options not enabled in generic that might be enabled
> to play mp3s better?
>
> i don't have one, but has anybody tried a pcmcia audio card, for
> example the audigy 2 zs, on a z50 with hpcmips 4.0?
>
> thanks again!
>
> tom

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