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lightsout
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 Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2003 5:52 pm Post subject: ALSA XMMS - buffer time reduced? |
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When I first installed Gentoo, everything was fine. Recently I upgraded alsa-xmms and I started getting this message everytime I play a MP3 in xmms:
| Quote: | | ** WARNING **: Buffer time reduced from 500 ms to 371 ms |
It doesn't stop it playing, but I just find the message odd. I've done an emerge sync and re-emerged xmms, alsa-xmms and alsa-driver but it hasn't helped.
I've got an Athlon XP 2000+ with a SB Live card if that helps. This is set in /etc/make.conf:
| Quote: | | ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" |
Any ideas why this message happens? Any ideas what I can do to stop it? (other than changing the buffer size of course!) |
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antibiotic
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2003 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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Having the same message here.... I guess it's all right, maybe they didn't clean up something. As long as it plays, all good with me 
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Woody
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2003 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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I imagine that your card wont allow that particular buffer size setting and it
takes the next setting. this is ok. |
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lightsout
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Woody wrote: | I imagine that your card wont allow that particular buffer size setting and it
takes the next setting. this is ok. |
Well it refuses to take any buffer size about 371, and whatever it is it just reduces down to 371ms.
This used to work, but now it doesn't. I don't see how this can be ok. |
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lightsout
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 6:15 pm Post subject: xmms |
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| Woody wrote: | I imagine that your card wont allow that particular buffer size setting and it
takes the next setting. this is ok. |
Well it refuses to take any buffer size about 371, and whatever it is it just reduces down to 371ms.
This used to work, but now it doesn't. I don't see how this can be ok. |
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Leander256
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 5:15 am Post subject: |
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I had the same problem with my sound card, a VIA embeded soundcard.
If it really bothers you, open the xmms preferences, then you should have the Alsa output plugin already selected, just click on configure, then lower the buffer time to 300 ms in the "advanced settings" tab.
Since I did that I'm not bothered anymore.
I'm not sure about it, but it looks like this error happens while CPU is quite busy (decompressing big files, compiling, etc...). I also have an Athlon XP 2000+. |
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