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Simon Royal wrote:
I am still battling with sound on my ThinkPad 600 running Xubuntu. I have managed to get some sound and even play MP3 via command line - mpg123 and mplayer. But I cannot get any program to play it. It either doesnt play at all or plays so crackly you cant even hear the music. Is this a hardware limitation or am I doing something wrong? Please help, I am a fairly new Linux user. When using mplayer via command line I noticed that it said 'pulse' is this the audio output engine/settings it is using as under Mixer there is also a mention of Pulse under one of the Output options - along sine OSS and Alsa. Your help would be greatly appreciated.
The problem could be because your installation is using PulseAudio as the audio layer/mixer. I had a very similar problem on a Mandriva box a few years ago - it was a dual-core 2GHz Athlon, so wasn't exactly puny (at the time), but would play MP3s in short staccato chunks. A look at "top" showed that PulseAudio was sucking 100% of one of the cores just doing that simple task (and, IIRC, mpg123 states it can run happily on a 300MHz P5, or something of that ilk).
I rummaged around and changed the audio layer to use ALSA and it's been perfectly fine since. Have a Google around for "disabling pulseaudio linux" for a few clues as to how this might be done, but I've not tried it on *buntu, so can't comment on exactly how...
Simon
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