Subject: Re: MP3 rippng too slow
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@iainstevenson.com)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 06:35:36 MST
I had some nasty protocol related problems and a crash around about the
time I had the 2.4.18 kernel so I'm a bit suspicious of it. The kernel.org
2.4.19 pre 2 seems much better - although YMMV
Iain
--On Wednesday, March 13, 2002 7:19 am -0500 Larry Kollar
<kollar@alltel.net> wrote:
> I'm having a problem on the other end -- after playing MP3s for
> a couple of hours, my system panics & reboots. I suspect the
> audio drivers (and the occasional MPEG error) are the problem
> here.
>
> So far, I've found the Linux MP3 players to be much less robust
> than SoundApp or iTunes: hitting a bad patch in the file,
> xmms either drops the file or core dumps. Mpg123 gets past some
> errors (with the -y flag) but not all. In contrast, SoundApp
> makes an occasional "bloop" or pop and iTunes just smooths it
> over.
>
> Kernel is 2.2.18 (kernel.org), patched for MoL, on a beige G3/266
> with 416MB RAM and a USB card. Both drives are IDE. Will a 2.4.{18,19}
> kernel help, and do the kernel.org sources compile for PPC, or should
> I just switch to OS X?
>
> --
> Larry Kollar k o l l a r at a l l t e l . n e t
> "Content creators are the engine that drives value in the
> information life cycle." -- Barry Schaeffer, on XML-Doc
>
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