timidity lag

Lockup · Guru Joined: 25 Jul 2002 Posts: 430

When playing .mids with timidity, the sound skips a lot and it ends up taking over 70% cpu. there is also quite a bit of static in the background.

I currently have version 2.13.0, with the following config(/etc/conf.d/timidity):
ps: i use alsa, compiled in mm-sources 2.6.3-mm4

b0fh_ · Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 10:05 pm Post subject:

Sorry dude, I can't help ya, timidity never gave me a hiccup since day 0 (and that was a looong ago). Try using OSS driver instead of ALSA and see if it helps...

But the real reason I replied is "DUDE! does guitar pro 4 really work under wine?!?!?!?!?!" im speechless... it's a PITA to run gp4 even in vmware, it's dog slow and makes all kinds of funky noises ;-)

. Do you got it to run it under wine? What version? Link to howto? ???

In a sidenote, I will try to dig my old timidity config file in my backups (have not installed it in gentoo yet, used it under mandrake 8.2, which I replaced 1 month ago with gentoo ;-)

.

Peace
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b0fh_ · Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 10:25 pm Post subject:

Well, emerged

timidity++
timidity-eawpatches

its working well on my laptop, playing some old YAMAHA xg demos.

Soundcard is: 0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02);

Kernel is 2.4.24 with swsusp 2.0 patch;

Sound driver is OSS i810_audio.o (plus the infamous ac97_codec.o)

I don't sem to have /etc/conf.d/timidity. Did you emerged timidity from portage? the closest thing I have is /usr/share/timidity/timidity.cfg

--SNIP--
#on my debian: /usr/local/share/timidity/timidity.cfg
dir /usr/share/timidity/eawpatches
source gravis.cfg
source gsdrums.cfg
source gssfx.cfg
source xgmap2.cfg
#dir /home/user/patches/

#mid -> wav: timidity input.mid -Ow1S -s 44100 -o output.wav
--SNIP--

Btw, it sounds good, the same it was in the mandrake days, so I assume it's all well and good. If you emerged it from portage I bet you have a soundcard issue.

peace.
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Lockup · Guru Joined: 25 Jul 2002 Posts: 430

for gp4 I only used Wine 20040408 + timidity, both configured to use alsa, which is the one that came with mm-sources 2.6.3-mm4. I think the /usr/share config for timidity is just a template by the way..

just make sure the timidity daemon is running [/etc/init.d/timidty start]

for the lag thing, i think ill have a look at the timidity/alsa-emu10k mailing lists later tonight

b0fh_ · Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 1:08 pm Post subject:

just stock wine? no windows DLLs? damn it sounds too easy to be true... will give it a try this weekend.

cheers.
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