[gobolinux-users] bemoaning the lack of sound

[Michael Homer]

On Nov 24, 2007 4:34 PM, Isaac Dupree <isaacdupree at charter.net> wrote:
> Isaac Dupree wrote:
> > Playing from audio CDs with MPlayer seems to pause every few seconds,
> > which sounds rather disruptive.  I can transfer the CD contents to files
> > on my computer, which can be played just fine.  Any idea why the CD trouble?
>
> probably not enough of read-ahead/buffer...
> cdparanoia 1 - | oggenc -q 5 - -o ripped/meditation.ogg
> in parallel with
> mplayer ripped/meditation.ogg
> seems to work excellently, for example, and possibly something simpler
> would but I do want to remove the burden of using the (noisy and
> physical) CD
DMA? Run `hdparm /dev/cdrom` and see what it says about it; if it's
not on, run `hdparm -d 1 /dev/cdrom` as root and give playing a try.
You'll probably want to add it to your bootscripts or create a task
for it (I think it's defaulted on in recent snapshots).
-Michael