From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 20 6: 4:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from utopia.ucd.ie (utopia.ucd.ie [137.43.13.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 66BA637B41E for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 06:04:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 22690 invoked by uid 13145); 20 Jun 2002 13:04:53 -0000 Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 14:04:53 +0100 From: Niall James O'Higgins To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XMMS Port Plays MP3 With Poor Quality? Message-ID: <20020620130453.GB22553@utopia.ucd.ie> Reply-To: Niall James O'Higgins References: <01cd01c217e2$4fba1c80$6e2a6ba5@TAGALONG> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <01cd01c217e2$4fba1c80$6e2a6ba5@TAGALONG> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The sound > quality was staticy and crackley, not the clear sound I got from the > Windows machine. Have you tried playing say just a .WAV file with splay or something like that? If you have and it plays clearly, it must be a down to the CPU load. MP3s take considerably more CPU time to decode. If it sounds the same as the mp3, it could be a driver issue or a hardware issue. Incorrectly setup sound cards under FreeBSD can produce very weird results, for example just playing the first 10 seconds of a track or something like that. The handbook has very good instructions about how to install your card. Good luck. -- Niall James O'Higgins | njo@sig11.com | http://www.sig11.com ------------------------------------------------------------ Of course lazy people are more efficient - afterall they invest in things like tape drive auto loaders! -- Dan Quinn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message