ALSA configuration

Cian Duffy myob87 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 24 18:41:40 MST 2004


On this subject, anyone any idea why XMMS as shipped with YDL4 plays
Vorbis files around 30% faster than Rhythmbox? Any file I've tried it
does.

Cian


On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:36:07 -0800, a monkey <thechimp at earthlink.net> wrote:
> In XMMS' ALSA configuration, there are values called `Buffer time' and
> `Period time'. I have no idea what those are. If I play around with
> these values, I can get my music to sound a lot nicer. But how do I know
> what the best values for them are? Also, there is a checkbox called
> `Mmap mode'. Should I have that checked?
> 
> By the way, if this info helps, I am on an eMac G4, 700 mhz processor.
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