Re: ALSA Problem solved! (Was Re: ALSA problem)

[Frank Murphy <murphyf+deb-ppc@f-m.fm>]

> Thanks for the tips, Frank. Works your way (and I'm much happier with
> that!)

Good. Glad to hear it.

> > So, I tried to increase the period. At 100ms, the sound is perfect. The
> > size of the buffer doesn't really matter (though I can't keep it
> > configured below 200ms -- it keeps getting reset to 200). What really odd
> > is that at 80 and 90ms, the audio will skip. It gets hung up at one place
> > and repeats a very short section.
>
> I found that it skips above 100ms, too.. Hm. That's probably an xmms-alsa
> thing.

I think that the defaults from xmms-alsa aren't very good. I don't know what 
better defaults would be though.

Frank