Re: esound (esd), 2.4.[12] chopped up sound

Pozsar Balazs
2001-03-20T17:37:44Z

> On my home machine playing sound through esd has worked beautifully on various
> kernels from 2.2.5 and up to 2.2.18.
> On 2.4.1 and 2.4.2 it stinks.
>
> It sounds like there are small pauses or repetitions in the sound, as if esd
> doesn't get
> the data quickly enough from the client or something. Music and voices
> (realaudio radio) still easy to understand but it does get on my nerves after a
> few minutes :(

Are you sure that the problem isn't at the mp3->raw conversino point? In
mandrake for example, mpg123 is badly compiled, and plays nicely on 2.2,
but awfully on 2.4.
I suggest you trying another (meybe self-compiled) version of mpg123.

bye,
Balazs Pozsar.