Re: Choppy sound with ESD
Hi there,
I found that it was the way I was starting up esd. If I start it using
-tcp it skips and jutters, if I start it with -unix it works like a
charm. Now this is fine for the local machine, but I also really need
it for network audio. I was looking into alternatives, arts seems
possible but difficult, nas seems outdated and needs patches to compile
cleanly on Darwin (which I need clients for).
I tried both mpg123 and alsaplayer, both with the same results.
I read up about some RedHat bug report about a similar caveat in esd,
but it was claimed to be fixed in 0.2.24 and I'm running 0.2.29. I
haven't tried libesd0, just libesd-alsa0, if that's any help.
Does anybody have any clues?
Thanks in advance,
Chris
On 19 May 2004, at 18:28, Ralph Katz wrote:
On 05/19/04 11:50, Chris Boot wrote:
Hi there,
I've just started trying to set sound up on my Sarge box (I didn't
need it before) and have run into a problem.
Basically, if I play sounds using mpg123-oss, music plays just fine.
If I play music using mpg123-esd with the esound daemon running the
sound is extremely choppy. It seems to play for .25 of a second, then
nothing for .25 of a second, and so on. I've tried niceing esd and
mpg123 to -19, giving both realtime privs using chrt, all to no
avail. Any ideas?
I need to use esd because I want to (eventually) play audio over my
LAN and NAS seems very primitive in comparison (e.g. no ALSA
support). Esd seems to be the best option to me.
Thanks in advance,
Chris
Maybe use the free mpg321 instead. Works fine for me with esd on a
slow machine.
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Chris Boot
bootc@bootc.net
http://www.bootc.net/
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