Skipping/Stuttering Sound in XMMS

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Sun Sep 18 17:21:25 PDT 2005


On Sep 18, 2005, at 5:18 PM, John Do wrote:

> Does anyone know why the sound skips and often
> stutters in XMMS?
>
> I don't seem to have this problem in other random
> media players in FreeBSD.
>
> I'm also wondering why it won't show MIDI support even
> though it is detected for PCM sound.  I have an old
> Soundblaster Live Card
>
> Thanks for your help guys

     Are you playing MP3s and if so, are you using the MAD vs MP123  
plugin? I forget which caused a problem in Linux, but I think if you  
use the libMAD it shouldn't stutter (or maybe it was vice versa).
-Garrett


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