Subject: Re: [ecasound] CVS problem
From: William Goldsmith (bill_AT_radioparadise.com)
Date: Fri Mar 14 2003 - 02:43:46 EET
OK. I've decided that the cure was worse than the disease & I dropped
the -z:intbuf -z:db,250000 setting from my command line. The glitches were
simply unbearable.
So it appears that any change to the defaults only makes the problem worse.
-bg
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Goldsmith" <bill_AT_radioparadise.com>
To: <ecasound-list_AT_wakkanet.fi>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: [ecasound] CVS problem
> The z:intbuf -z:db,250000 setting seems to help with the problem of short
(<
> 1 sec) "stutters" in audio playback, but that introduces a lot of much
> shorter (but very ugly) glitches. This is a very frustrating problem.
With
> previous versions of ecasound (& a much less powerful server) I enjoyed
> flawless audio playback.
>
> If you tune in at www.radioparadise.com you can probably hear the problem
> happening. Any & all suggestions are very welcome.
>
> -bg
>
>
> > I haven't been able to completely get rid of the problem with any
> > combination of the suggested commands, though it's very hard to tell for
> > sure because it's such an intermittent problem - and I'm not listening
to
> > the direct output of ecasound, but to a stream encoded from the output
> (via
> > liveice & LAME) - so I need to separate any errors introduced by that
> step.
> > It *seems* as if -z:intbuf -z:db,250000 gives the best results. I'll
try
> > that for a while & see how it goes.
> >
> > I get no error messages.
> >
> > thanks
> > -bg
> >
> >
> > > On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, William Goldsmith wrote:
> > >
> > > > On all of my systems I am noticing more disruptions in playback with
> the
> > > > current CVS than I did with earlier versions. They seem to be
related
> to
> > > > disk access and/or CPU overhead - even on my newest music server,
> which
> > is a
> > > > very fast box (Dual Xeon 2.4 GHz) with fast SCSI storage. Any buffer
> > setting
> > > > or other config changes I can make to minimize that?
> > >
> > > Do you get some specific error message?
> > >
> > > You should try variations of the following options:
> > >
> > > -z:intbuf / -z:nointbuf
> > > -z:nodb / -z:db / -z:db,250000
> > > -b:512 / -b:1024 / -b:2048
> > >
> > > ... by determining which of these have the most notable effect,
> > > it's easier to find out what is causing the disruptions.
> > >
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