Ogg123

[ddjolley]

I'm curious as to whether anyone has been able to get ogg123 to work (from the vorbis-utils package - 0.5.3, unstable feed).  I'm invoking it from the command line and it works but the audio output is jerky -- sort of like  sputtering.  I'm running the bootstrap image.  Maybe I should be using a different feed?  The word 'unstable' makes me a bit nervous; but, I don't know what else to use.  Any suggestions on what I might do to get this working?  Thanks.

      ... doug

[malcolmxavier]

There was another post about a similar problem (and wouldn't it figure I can't find it right now), but it delt with the fact that some people were playing audio (and video) from the SD card which only has a 1 bit bus speed rather than a CF card which has a higher bus speed. SD cards are fairly slow.  I am trying to work around this same issue with video. My video files are playing choppy.

Search the forums, if I can find the post I will reply and add it.

-John

EDIT: wouldn't it figure that as soon as I get done posting I find it. Take a look at the 3rd page.

Skipping audio

[ddjolley]

> EDIT: wouldn't it figure that as soon as I get done posting I find it. Take a look at the 3rd page.

Thanks, John, for the input.

I don't think I'm experiencing the same probllem as the one discussed in that thread.  I read that thread as talking about a 'skipping' that occurs every once in a while.  Mine is more of a 'sputtering' that produces a jerk in the output at very approximate intervals of about 0.5 seconds.   Then, in that thread  xmms was being used and the format was MP3.  I'm not using xmms and my MP3 stuff plays just fine.  My problem only exists when playing ogg files using ogg123.

My music is on a CF card; but, I had the ogg123 binary installed on the SD card.  I tried moving the binary to the CF card hoping that might cure the problem; but, it didn't.

I forgot to mention in my earlier post that my hardware is an SlL-5500 and I'm running the bootstrap immage.

I'd still like to know if *ANYONE* has gotten ogg123 to decode files properly on an SL-5500.  Just knowing that there was someone out there who has had success with this would be very reassuring.
Thanks again.

     ... doug

[lardman]

The skipping which occurs with the xine lib is caused by the timing method (I think), perhaps something similar is happening with ogg123.

What command are you using to play the files - there are different output devices, I don't know whether using different ones works/makes any difference.


Si