Re: sblive skips?
Aaron, it isn't the fault of windows, nor the fault of linux. If I recall,
there is a FAQ at www.winamp.com that describes this situation. Basically,
your PCI bus gives the cycles to the videocard when it needs them, and lets
the chips fall where they may -- which means skipping during audio playback
for the soundcard.
Why it is more prevalent under windows is the Smooth Scrolling micros~1
introduced a little while back -- that sucks up the video bandwidth like
nuts, and takes away from sound bandwidth.
I wish I knew how to fix it.
On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 05:59:10PM -0400, Aaron Solochek wrote:
> One of the things I like when I first installed on my system (PII 400,
> everything scsi, 128mb ram) was that I could play mp3's and they would
> never skip when I was doing stuff in the background. That was back when
> I had a SB AWE64gold... since then I have moved that to a different
> machine and installed a sblive. Now the sounds skips every now and
> then... I know for sure that xearth makes is skip when it refreshes.
> Does anyone know why this is? Is the system priortizing its self
> differently? Is it because I went from an ISA to a PCI sound card?
> This is really starting to annoy me, especially because this was one of
> my big complaints about windows.
>
> -Aaron Solochek
> leko@cmu.edu
>
>
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