[Gllug] Slow machine

Adrian McMenamin adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk
Sun Sep 4 23:04:20 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 17:50 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > Ever since I upgraded one of my boxes to Fedora Core 4 it has run slowly
> > on certain things - primarily some audio and video stuff.
> 
> What Audio hardware do you have ?

ES1371 (Ensoniq)

> 
> > I can play MP3s etc at normal speed, but playing a simple piece of PCM
> > audio results in output with audible gaps/jerks. Similarly video (eg
> > MPEG) does not play properly.
> 
> Where did you get the mp3 + mpeg support from ? are you using r.l.o or 
> rpmforge repo's ?

To be honest I cannot remember. The MP3 stuff doesn't come from RH as
they won't handle it for patent reasons, but beyond that I cannot
remember where I got it from. Xine and mplayer both display the same
behaviour when playing mpeg

> 
> - K
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