[TriLUG] Why does Linux sound Still SUCK

[David A. Cafaro]

hmm, I haven't had those kinds of sound problems.  I'm sitting with my
laptop (Dell c600) using the drivers that came with Mandrake 8.2,
running at 600mhz (battery save mode).  I play MP3's while surfing the
web and compiling some applications in the background (mostly rpm src
rebuilds).  No problems.  Doesn't skip a beat.  Using Ximian Gnome with
xmms.  Believe it is using the OSS sound system in xmms.

Modules loaded:
ac97_codec
soundcore
maestro3

On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 09:35, Andrew C. Oliver wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> On Windows, if you play an MPEG and kick off your compiler everything is
> generally okay.  Rarely will you hear even a skip.  On linux it totally
> hoses it (still) and generally you get static etc.
> 
> Generally I use plaympeg to play my mp3s.  Is there something better?
> 
> And why does this happen so much more frequently?  (Looking for a
> technical explanation)  -- I don't know jack about programming sound
> stuff but it would seem that by now this should be up to near the same
> quality.  Is it the player, is it the linux sound system?
> 
> Hopefully when I blow my tax refund on the new dual athlon motherbaord
> it won't happen anymore anyhow ;-)
> 
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