sound woes :-(

[kumiorava at crosswinds.net]

A CyrixII 300mhz should be more than enough to play mp3's 
when it comes to pure processing power. My old PII 400mhz
which wasn't that much more powerfull than your processor
used to use hog more than maby 15% processor nice time at any
point in playing. However, what made all the difference in 
mp3 playing performance on that machine was to to cranck up
the size of the buffer. If you use XMMS, try going into the
configuration for the OSS plugin and change the buffer size
to something like 3000K. That might help you get smoother 
output. Don't know how you would go about changing the buffer
in other players...

	- Lasse


> hi all, 
> 
>           I'm having a bit of a sound config problem.
> Seems that I can play wave files fine, but when I try 
> to play mp3's the system really struggles (sounds like
> slow motion). I'm running mandrake 7.2  , and have a
> CyrixII 300mhz processor and on board chip SIS. Any
> tips or tricks to make this thing play would be
> greatly appreciated. 
> 
>                         thanx in advance, Vlok   
> 
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