Re: Successful 4.0 install on z50; issue playing mp3s

what an interesting, helpful, and relevant comment! thank-you!

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:41 AM, elijah rutschman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Thomas Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> [...]
>> 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.
>
> Hello,
> It sounds like issues with audio latency.  If you check the CVS
> history for 2008-07-31 05:58:06 @ http://pkgsrc.se/audio/jack-devel,
> the author mentions some "changes to audio_poll() and the pause
> attribute handling", in the netbsd sources to fix audio latency
> issues.  You could try building your own kernel from the latest
> sources if the kernel you are using is older than July 31st.  If you
> were going to do that though, I'd recommend setting up a cross-build
> environment on some more powerful computer.
>
> Regards,
> Elijah
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