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Subject: Re: [9fans] 3e mpg123 plays on off on off on off on 4e
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From: Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
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Date: Fri,  3 May 2002 12:12:22 +0200
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> > Try copying the mp3 over to local disk first.

Sorry. no local disk (currently).
it's a diskless cpu/auth server that doubles as terminal,
boots kernel from flop, takes root from fs.
(150 Mhz pentium with 64 Mb ram)
My only other plan 9 machine here is a laptop
with unsupported audio hardware.

> > I'm assuming that won't change anything, in which
> > case you should make sure you've disabled the usb
> > driver.

my config file contains neither dev->usb nor misc->usbuhci
is based on pccpu, with audio, serial, and a lot of net and
video drivers

> Happens on my box even without the USB driver when
> the mp3 is local to the audio driver. Except, its
> not as accentuated as Axel states in my case. Its
> more like for every 5 minutes of play there is a
> 5 second pause.

As I mentioned, the other thing I did notice is that
in the stats window the load is now dramatically less
(almost half) than I used to see (unless load very
much depends on the particular mp3 file being played).

I now intend to just install the update, and see what happens.

Axel.