Re: [Zinf-users] Playback Stutters

[Robert K. <ro...@eo...>]

On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 14:36, Andrew Borland wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am I the first post here ????

Other than my test post, yes. :-)

> 
> With Zinf 2.2.0a and FreeA*p 2.1.0 (both under Win98SE) I'm getting 
> occasional stutters on .MP3 playback when well into the track.  It 
> doesn't seem to matter whether I'm listening to a 3 minute music track 
> or a one hour radio program.

Can you describe the stutters a little bit more? Does the music just
stop momentarily or does it make funky chirping noises?

> The FreeA*p help file (was it intentionally omitted from Zinf?) 

Yes. It was increasingly getting out of sync, and I didn't have the
energy to maintain it. If someone wanted to volunteer to maintain it, we
could simply post it on the web site and have the help button launch a
browser to the site. 
 
> Is there anything I can do to eliminate this?

I don't get that problem, and thus I've not been able to fix the
problem.

> I've got the decoder priority turned up to RealTime and the PC isn't 
> doing anything else.  It's fitted with a current generation 1.1GHz 
> Celeron and 512MByte of RAM so it ought to be cruising.  Hard drive is 
> laptop unit at UDMA/33, with the drive light flicking briefly about 
> once a second.

There is no reason why it should stutter. Period. What kind of soundcard
do you have? Have you tried getting the latest and greatest drivers from
the soundcard manuf.?

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