get rid of xmms's skipping problemForum: Multimedia Topic: get rid of xmms's skipping problem started by: margni Posted by margni on Sep. 13 2005,20:48
I'm really liking DSL... it installed on my older PII/128 like a breeze... Here's the problem... I'm used to running FC3, so I have to do a little re-thinking here with a Debian type box... When I play XMMS for a while - I stream radio streams with it - the player plays well for about 2 hours, then it gets skips and bumps in the stream. I don't get this with the FC3 box... Anyone out there know how to change the buffer or cache size? Margni Posted by cbagger01 on Sep. 16 2005,02:42
Right-click on the XMMS window.Choose the MPEG Layer 1/2/3 input plugin from the "Audio I/O Plugins" tab and press the configure button Click on the "Steaming" tab. The buffer size and pre buffer percent settings are at the top of the window. Posted by margni on Sep. 19 2005,13:52
cbagger... I got in and changed the following Buffer size from 128kb to 512kb, and the buffer's percentage from 25 to 50%... I'll run it a while and report back... Thanks! margni Posted by margni on Sep. 19 2005,20:02
By changing the settings It gets rid of the rumbles and what seem like skips in the stream...On the other hand , it takes a little longer to load the stream into memory. But that's not much - say 10/12 seconds, v 6/7 seconds. The extra wait is worth the clean streaming... Thanks!!! |