-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 1/30/2014 12:04 PM, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
Bob Williams <linux@barrowhillfarm.org.uk> writes:
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.
I am a long time user of MPD and have never had any problems. Do you see any MPD or ALSA errors in /var/log/messages?
Maybe a buffer somewhere is being emptied faster than it fills when using MPD, compared to MPlayer.
Your can try increasing the buffer_before_play size in /etc/mpd.conf.
Charles
Its still a pretty dumb player that you have to be making these tweaks on. Its bound to get in trouble in any I/O intensive environment. Most of these things dynamically adjust their cache size and try to keep cache full. - -- _____________________________________ - ---This space for rent--- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAlLquiMACgkQv7M3G5+2DLJqVgCfcC6P3mlFoA9Ew1DzvgFYHbML txcAniBdCBkKaXFWcwCcCdOio7hON8Yz =PFv+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org