FreeBSD and Audio CD

[Carlos A. M. dos Santos]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Ilya Nickolsky <aspdaspn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Carlos,
>
> Thanks for your answer.
> When cdcontrol playing top shows 2 - 7% CPU load
> When I use CD player from Gnome it is 8 - 10%
> When I start freevo (inside gnome session) it start xine and it is also 8 ..
> 12 %
>
> I see that difference is not really big. Mind you where could be a problem?

Ilya,

Please do not top-post, and keep the list copied in your replies.

What about memory usage? How much swap is your system using? I guess
it is spending a deal of time on disk I/O.

> With Best Regards,
> Ilya Nickolsky
>
>
> 2008/11/23 Carlos A. M. dos Santos <unixmania at gmail.com>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Ilya Nickolsky <aspdaspn at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello All,
>> >
>> > I have FreeBSD 63 running on Thinkpad 600X (P3, 256 Mb RAM, sound
>> > CS4624). I
>> > could listen AudioCD only with cdcontrol play command entered in console
>> > or
>> > in xterm under X. When CD is playing the CD-ROM drive lit a led not
>> > constantly and sound is correct. but when I use any player for X like
>> > default in GNOME, or Mplayer/XINE/XMMS under freevo I hear sound
>> > interruptions and CD-ROM LED lit constantly. I hear sound interruption
>> > and
>> > sound is not "clear". Could you help me to correct this?
>>
>> Ilya,
>>
>> When you play a CD via cdcontrol the audio decoding is made by the CD
>> drive, which is connected to a corresponding input of the audio mixer
>> on the computer main board. When you use mplayer/xine/xmms, however,
>> the program must extract the digital data and make the conversion,
>> before sending it to the audio device. Your problem is probably that
>> your computer has not enough processing power to perform the
>> conversion. What does "top" show when you try to play the CD?
>>
>> One possible alternative, if you want a GUI player, is using a program
>> like XMCD or xcdplayer.
>>
>> --
>> cd /usr/ports/sysutils/life
>> make clean
>
>



-- 
cd /usr/ports/sysutils/life
make clean