From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 20 17: 4:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4657F37B409 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 17:04:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-65.59.70.251.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net ([65.59.70.251] helo=sparky) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17LBub-0002F3-00; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 17:04:25 -0700 From: Jud To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Niall James O'Higgins Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:04:48 -0400 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: <20020620130453.GB22553@utopia.ucd.ie> Message-Id: Subject: Re: XMMS Port Plays MP3 With Poor Quality? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Opera 6.04 build 1130 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 6/20/2002 9:04:53 AM, Niall James O'Higgins wrote: >> 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. I've found sound cards under Unix (old BeOS experience and FreeBSD) may be more sensitive to electrical interference than the same hardware under Windows - I have no idea why. The solution was to move my sound card as far from the more densely populated part of the box's electronics as possible. First I moved it to PCI slot 5. Upon installing a new motherboard FreeBSD hung on boot while probing the card. Figuring it might be an IRQ conflict, I moved the card to PCI slot 4, which solved the hang without bringing back any noise problems. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message