Re: audio lag in 5.2-Beta (card emu10k1)

From: Mathew Kanner <mat_at_cnd.mcgill.ca>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:32:56 -0500
On Dec 11, juha.nygard1_at_netikka.fi wrote:
> Upgrading from 5.1 to 5.2-BETA has introduced a startup lag when starting 
> to play something through /dev/dsp. It takes about two seconds from pressing play 
> button in xmms to hearing the sound. I don't really know if this is a bug 
> or a feature but still it is quite annoying.

	People,	
	This is a difficult report to diagnose.  I've installed xmms
and it's behaviour seems reasonable to me.  I note that it has buffer
options for the oss output plugin, try reducing the values.
Personally, I'm not in the mood to go digging in the xmms source to
understand what it's doing.

	--Mat

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Received on Thu Dec 11 2003 - 10:36:03 UTC

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