Bug 78891

Summary: MP3 playback skips during high disk utilization
Product: [Unmaintained] arts Reporter: Jason Huebel <jhuebel>
Component: generalAssignee: Multimedia Developers <kde-multimedia>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description Jason Huebel 2004-04-02 02:08:27 UTC 
Version:           2.0.1 (using KDE KDE 3.2.1)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc-3.3.2 
OS:          Linux

MP3 playback skips during high disk IO (from other processes). It would be nice if JuK buffered a portion of the MP3 (or all of it) so that disk IO isn't an issue.
Comment 1 Scott Wheeler 2004-04-02 12:53:21 UTC 
JuK doesn't handle MP3 playback -- that's handled (including the buffering schemes) completely by the backends.  You can adjust the buffer size for aRts in KControl however.
Comment 2 Stefan Gehn 2004-04-26 17:38:29 UTC 
1. Make sure your buffer setting for artsd is not too small
2. Enable realtime-priority for artsd
3. make sure the "artswrapper" binary is setuid root (2. only works with that one, sane distros should do that automatically though)
4. OPTIONAL: Hack mpeglib to use bigger input buffers, I still have to ask somebody if we can bump the buffer to at least 2-4x the size it is now
with all these changes it's quite hard to make noatun, juk or amarok skip if you have a semi decent system.