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MP3 problems.
Here's a good one for you. Under Windows I have Winamp going
and it can be on the highest quality setting and play MP3's easily.
The system slows, but the sound is great! Under Linux Freeamp,
and many others play the MP3, even at reduced sound quality,
badley. The sound is garbled, and slow. Unlike Winamp where bits
of music are skipped if there is not enough CPU, they play the
MP3 slowley. There is a reduction in the frequency of the sound. I
have looked at possible problems and found a few but don't know
which I should tackle first.
Problem 1) Im running a Cyrix 220MMX cpu which I read
somewhere, (may well have been here) which isn't used as
efficiently as it could be under Linux, unless I install a patch. So
could this lack of efficiency slow down the processor enough to
explain the problem. Or...
Problem 2) My sound card is based upon the CMi8330 chips,
(which I did read about here) and under windows some games
sound terrible and slow down the system. Quake 2 has an option
to reduce the quality of the sound and with this enabled the game
runs well under my Voodoo2 board. (Indeed, it runs well under
software mode) The problem which I think I read about a long time
ago is that my Video card, which incidentally is also on the
motherboard, steals capacity on the bus from the soundcard.
Dungeon Keeper 2 is only playable with background music, which
is supplied by the cd. I am using the prepaid OSS on SuSE 6.3 for
sound. OR..
Problem 3) could it simply be that the MP3 decoding isn't as
advanced as that on Winamp and needs much more CPU power?
I expect its probably a combination of these, but I really am not
sure. Any help would be appreciated.
_oOO-Richard Fletcher-OOo_
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