Comments on: Sound at 120Mhz: The good, the bad … http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/sound-at-120mhz-the-good-the-bad/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Some audio success « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/sound-at-120mhz-the-good-the-bad/#comment-46385 Sun, 14 Nov 2010 08:16:20 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/sound-at-120mhz-the-good-the-bad/#comment-46385 [...] a year ago, I managed to decipher the configuration options for ISA sound cards, and with that came the wonderful world of sound, at under [...]

]]> By: A Debian server at 150Mhz, 32Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/sound-at-120mhz-the-good-the-bad/#comment-44431 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 12:01:12 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/sound-at-120mhz-the-good-the-bad/#comment-44431 [...] one, it too suffers from stuttering music playback with both mocp and other console-based media players, let alone the graphical ones. I have seen [...]

]]> By: Sound’s ironic « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/sound-at-120mhz-the-good-the-bad/#comment-42564 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:06:40 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/sound-at-120mhz-the-good-the-bad/#comment-42564 [...] I still spend a little time — now and again, but not often — trying to resolve the long-standing sound issue on my Crux-driven Pentium laptop. It took me years to find out how to get any sound at all out of [...]

]]> By: Thank you, Debian « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/sound-at-120mhz-the-good-the-bad/#comment-42004 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:50:58 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/sound-at-120mhz-the-good-the-bad/#comment-42004 [...] bad. Good, because it means I sacrificed nothing by converting to Crux, but bad because things like stuttering audio under mocp are the same. I don’t plan on using this machine for audio playback so I guess I [...]

]]> By: Xyzzy http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/sound-at-120mhz-the-good-the-bad/#comment-41967 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:26:36 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/sound-at-120mhz-the-good-the-bad/#comment-41967 Hey, my 1.6GHz laptop actually has a volume wheel, that’s part of why I picked it! :o ) Unfortunately, mocp isn’t a happy camper; audio skips, eats 40-90% CPU for up to a minute at a time, and at one point locked up with 98% of the CPU. Which might mean that thanks to distro changes, a console app can run as well or better on a 14-year-old computer than a 5.5-year-old one…yikes.

]]> By: A substitute audio player « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/sound-at-120mhz-the-good-the-bad/#comment-41965 Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:44:11 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/sound-at-120mhz-the-good-the-bad/#comment-41965 [...] something I described a while back, and so I won’t go into too much detail here. When I yanked all of moc and its subsidiaries, [...]

]]> By: zenfunk http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/sound-at-120mhz-the-good-the-bad/#comment-41735 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:40:36 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/sound-at-120mhz-the-good-the-bad/#comment-41735 Hm, try modfiles, they have been around since the days Amigas where popular.

Keep it up,
Christian

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/sound-at-120mhz-the-good-the-bad/#comment-41728 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:40:49 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/sound-at-120mhz-the-good-the-bad/#comment-41728 I had considered that too. Right now I have only ogg-format files, and I tried one mp3 as a test file and saw the same behavior. Codec options open a whole new can of worms though … low or high quality, VBR or constant, blah blah blah. I’ll have to experiment and see what works. …

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/sound-at-120mhz-the-good-the-bad/#comment-41727 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:38:36 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/sound-at-120mhz-the-good-the-bad/#comment-41727 I tried that once, but saw no real improvement. I might try lowering the priority on some of the other applications, but I don’t know if that will be of much help. If I get an answer one way or the other, I’ll post it.

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/sound-at-120mhz-the-good-the-bad/#comment-41726 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:37:36 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/sound-at-120mhz-the-good-the-bad/#comment-41726 That would be the straightforward answer to all the problems, wouldn’t it? ;)

Joking aside, if this were a music-only machine, it would hardly have a problem. Sound quality is good, so long as the machine isn’t being overwhelmed with other stuff at the same time. I need to start playing crawl on a different computer, I guess. … :D

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