Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] FINALLY -- ghod I hate SuSE

[Kelvin L. <ke...@us...>]

> At 1280x1024, with Dangerous 02-14, Van Halen's Beautiful Girls, which
> is a pretty uptempo song, 10 can't quite keep up.  5 keeps up, but
> bundles too many updates to look good.

Someone has been writing to me off-list with syncing problems - that's 
on a 750MHz machine though - would be nice to know what the minimum spec 
is to run smoothly.

It would also be good to establish hard facts about where the bottleneck 
is. i.e. is it somewhere in the bowels of SDL or is it due to the CD+G 
decoding. As I mentioned in a previous mail, there were some areas of 
the code that were initially very slow on this machine (think it's an 
Athlon XP1800). Loading the colour table was an example - I had a CD+G 
that did a lot of colour table loads to achieve a colour-cycling effect, 
and the initial implementation didn't cut the mustard. The new one was 
way faster but could still be marginal. Are there particular parts of 
the track that seem to cause problems? If it's patchy, maybe we could 
spew out some debug to tell which CD+G commands are being decoded in the 
problem patches. Problem areas are likely to be the Colour Table load, 
Memory Presets and Scrolling.

> 1) allow passing in the label code and disc number to cdgrip to add to
> the front of the track names (sc8119-05.cdg, or sc8119-05 Here's The
> Title.cdg).

Sounds good.

> 2) only play one track at a time even on a playlist.

Something like a "Play" button, and a "Play One" button.

> 3) add OK buttons to the prefs and search dialogs.

Gotcha.

Kelvin.