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Re: "dropouts" when playing multimedia



Am Samstag, 10. September 2005 03:00 schrieb James Hirschorn:
> I am using KDE 3.3.2 on Debian Sid. Recently the following problem has
> cropped up. Whenever playing back multimedia (audio and/or video) there are
> brief pauses. This happens with XMMS, and also Xine.
>
> There is no problem if I use the Gnome desktop. I guess I will be switching
> to Gnome for now because I cannot figure out what is causing this. If
> anyone has a better suggestion or knows anything about the problem, please
> get back.

KDE starts a process that only a preemptible kernel could handle with proper 
latency for your audio player? Did you try to take a look at 'top'?

HS



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