Re: [audio problem] Audio skips
Thomas Jollans wrote:
> belbo wrote:
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>>Peter Nuttall wrote:
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>>>On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 10:41:25PM +0100, belbo wrote:
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>>>>Yes, my Xorg has -10 priority. And Gnome is quite slow even with -10. X How can
>>>>I put value down? Which value can I try? Does it make any sense increase player
>>>>priority? Audio never skipped, probably an upgrade changed some priority.
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>>>renice esd 10 (or -10, I can't remember which )
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>>I'm not running esd.
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>>>I can't think what is going wrong, unless you have the wrong driver for
>>>your soundcard or there is a bug in the sound system.
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>>I've noticed a very strange behaviour. I run skype with a OSS wrapper called
>>"aoss". When I switch desktop (or I load a web page), aoss writes down these
>>messages:
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>>write error, written = 256
>>write error, written = 256
>>write error, written = 256
>>write error, written = 546
>>write error, written = 770
>>write error, written = 320
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>>It can mean that X produces some sort of audio crap on refreshing.
>>This sounds crazy, but I can observe it quite clearly. Audio skips exactly on
>>errors. If I don't switch desktop etc etc., audio works fine.
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>>Does it mean there is a oss related bug in Xorg?
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> of in gnome ?
> I have similiar problems on gnome, but can't remember having them on kde...
I have the same problems on kde. I noticed if I increase process priority of the
reader (nice -n -20 mplayer) audio doesn't skip any more, but I have 2 questions:
1) how can I increase process priority *without* root permission or sudo?
2) is it dangerous for system stability increasing priority of foreground processes?
Thank,
Belbo
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