mp3 skips and blips in XMMS w/OZ 3.5.1 on 5500

[ksignorini]

I've installed XMMS out of the OZ 3.5.1 feed on my SL-5500.  When playing MP3's I get quite a few skips.

It reminds me of when I was playing MP3's on my old Pentium 75.

Can anyone offer suggestions to fix this?  Or is it simply that the processor on the 5500 is too slow?  Or could it be XMMS?

Thanks,
Kent!

[Pyrates]

What kind of skips do you mean? My xmms often stops playing a track befor it has ended, and jumps to the next one. It did so on all ROM's, and doesn't always do it, so dunno what's going on...

Or does it keep playing the song, though there are random pauses? Maybe you can shut down some stuff you're running (ssh for example isn't needed while not connecting to your desktop), also check your memory. What initrd are you using? I had memory trouble one with a just-32-MB-memory-initrd, but that was with OZ 3.2.

Cheers
Philipp

[ksignorini]

Random pauses within songs.  I'm using a 64-0 OZ 3.5.1.

I'll have to see what processes are running and do some experiments, I guess.

Thanks,
Kent!

[lardman]

I'm not sure what xmms uses as it's decoder, but take a look at this just in case:

https://www.oesf.org/forums/inde...ic=5220&hl=xine


Si

[ksignorini]

Thanks.  I'll try this.

Kent!

[ksignorini]

OK, I opened this link and found instructions for modifying a xine config file of some kind.

Thing is:  I don't have this config file on my Z.  In fact, this xine package isn't installed (it was obviously not a dependency for XMMS).

I imagine this is something that opie-player2 uses.

Now what?   Will installing this xine package do anything for me if XMMS doesn't actually use it?

Thanks again.
Kent!

[lardman]

I'm not sure what xmms uses as it's decoder

Now what? Will installing this xine package do anything for me if XMMS doesn't actually use it?

No; ignore my post, I wasn't sure.


Si

[ksignorini]

Anyone else have any ideas?


Kent!


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[ksignorini]

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[ksignorini]

Now I'm really confused!   For a couple days it didn't skip at all!

Now it skips on every song.  And what's confusing is that I have rebooted and restarted Opie and nothing makes any difference.

And when it DID work without skipping I hadn't done anything special like stop any processes.

Does anyone else have this happening?

Thanks,
Kent!

[lardman]

Same tracks presumably.....?


Si

[ksignorini]

Same tracks skipping today that didn't yesterday, yes.

Kent!

[zenyatta]

Dumb question of the day: are you familiar with the "top" command? It runs a list of processes ordered by their resource consumption. You seem to have a process hogging the CPU. Sorry, no further ideas.

z.

[ksignorini]

Here is my top output:

Mem: 38872K used, 23516K free, 0K shrd, 1764K buff, 22256K cached
Load average: 3.08, 3.10, 2.92    (State: S=sleeping R=running, W=waiting)

  PID USER     STATUS   RSS  PPID %CPU %MEM COMMAND
 2189 root     R        776  2175  7.2  1.2 top
 2080 root     S       6864  2077  4.5 11.0 xmms
 2079 root     S       6864  2077  3.6 11.0 xmms
 2146 root     S       6864  2077  3.6 11.0 xmms
  704 root     S       8672     1  0.0 13.9 qpe
 2076 root     S       6864   704  0.0 11.0 xmms
 2078 root     S       6864  2077  0.0 11.0 xmms
 2081 root     S       6864  2077  0.0 11.0 xmms
 2077 root     S       6864  2076  0.0 11.0 xmms
 1757 root     S N     4008   704  0.0  6.4 quicklauncher
 2060 root     S       1216   476  0.0  1.9 dropbear
 2174 root     S       1216   476  0.0  1.9 dropbear
 2175 root     S        780  2174  0.0  1.2 sh
 2061 root     S        780  2060  0.0  1.2 sh
  609 root     S        760     1  0.0  1.2 cardmgr
  476 root     S        636     1  0.0  1.0 dropbear
  500 root     S        584     1  0.0  0.9 apmd
  617 root     S        580     1  0.0  0.9 syslogd
  526 root     S        556     1  0.0  0.8 hcid
  619 root     S        552     1  0.0  0.8 klogd
  533 root     S        540     1  0.0  0.8 sdpd
    1 root     S        532     0  0.0  0.8 init
  682 root     S        524     1  0.0  0.8 getty
  683 root     S        524     1  0.0  0.8 getty
  410 daemon   S        440     1  0.0  0.7 portmap
  176 root     S        312     1  0.0  0.5 sdmgr
    6 root     SW         0     1  0.0  0.0 kapm-idled
   10 root     SW         0     0  0.0  0.0 kupdated
   11 root     DW         0     1  0.0  0.0 swapper
    7 root     SWN        0     0  0.0  0.0 ksoftirqd_CPU0
    2 root     SW         0     1  0.0  0.0 keventd
    4 root     DW         0     1  0.0  0.0 swapper
    3 root     DW         0     1  0.0  0.0 swapper
    5 root     SW         0     1  0.0  0.0 swapper
    8 root     SW         0     0  0.0  0.0 kswapd
    9 root     SW         0     0  0.0  0.0 bdflush
   12 root     SW         0     1  0.0  0.0 mtdblockd
   83 root     SWN        0     1  0.0  0.0 jffs2_gcd_mtd4



I don't really see anything too heavy but maybe someone else does?

Thanks,
Kent!

edit:  posted wrong top output

[ksignorini]

Course, um, just after running top and posting the last post, um, it's not skipping anymore (again).

Damn.

No...wait, there it goes skipping again.  Yup, it's skipping.

Damn.

Kent!