-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 20 Dec 2013, in Message-id: <52B480E3.5020108@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> I complained about intermittent sound dropouts on my system. At the time, I blamed Pulseaudio, but I may have been wrong ... I started by completely removing PA from my system (not just disabling it), but though the problem improved, it didn't go away completely. That seemed to exonerate PA, even if having it installed aggravated the underlying problem. So I reinstalled PA. I listen to my music through Music Player Daemon (MPD), so the next thing was to try another player. MPlayer behaved flawlessly, even through PA, so that pointed the finger at MPD. I monitor my computer with gkrellm, and I noticed that there was very little disk activity during playback with MPlayer, whereas MPD reads data from the disk in 262k chunks. Maybe a buffer somewhere is being emptied faster than it fills when using MPD, compared to MPlayer. MPD's configuration file has an entry #buffer_before_play "10%" so I uncommented this line, and increased the value to 20%. buffer_before_play "20%" So far, so good, music is playing perfectly. I realise that other people who've experienced similar problems with sound may not be using MPD, but this may help them find a similar solution in their setup. Bob - -- Bob Williams System: Linux 3.11.6-4-desktop Distro: openSUSE 13.1 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.12.1 Uptime: 18:00pm up 3:13, 3 users, load average: 0.38, 0.39, 0.48 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlLqqKkACgkQ0Sr7eZJrmU6slwCbBnI8H7TtftgtGdr7TDWhUZQW WBEAn3HfCva0HhFFGKmkpmDdcGcLio+B =smZc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org