On Feb 18, 2008 7:43 AM, Phil Bridges <<a href="mailto:gravityhammer@gmail.com">gravityhammer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Feb 12, 2008 8:34 AM, Phil Bridges <<a href="mailto:gravityhammer@gmail.com">gravityhammer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> On Feb 11, 2008 8:51 AM, Phil Bridges <<a href="mailto:gravityhammer@gmail.com">gravityhammer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>> > On Feb 10, 2008 11:09 AM, Phil Bridges <<a href="mailto:gravityhammer@gmail.com">gravityhammer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > > I've recently noticed some stuttering when I'm playing tracks in<br>
> > > Mythmusic (Gentoo ebuild 0.20.2_p14282). I started tailing the<br>> > > Mythfrontend log, and I find a bunch of these messages:<br>> > ><br>> > > 2008-02-10 10:49:38.258 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.<br>
> > > 2008-02-10 10:49:39.810 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.<br>> > > 2008-02-10 10:49:42.024 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.<br>> > > 2008-02-10 10:49:44.242 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.<br>
> > > 2008-02-10 10:49:47.482 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.<br>> > > 2008-02-10 10:55:00.871 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.<br>> > > 2008-02-10 10:55:09.668 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.<br>
> > ><br>> > > I get one of these every sing change, but it looks like I get one<br>> > > every time the music stutters. What could be causing this?<br>> > ><br>> ><br>> > Upon further investigation, it appears that my system clock was<br>
> > running fast. Could this be causing the audio to skip? I've started<br>> > using ntp on this machine now, but haven't had a chance to use<br>> > MythMusic.<br>> ><br>><br>> It looks like the clock issue has been cleared up, and, for the most<br>
> part, Mythmusic is stutter-free. I have noticed, though, that there<br>> seems to be an issue with the visualizations. I have random<br>> visualizations set up to change with every song. About 10 seconds<br>
> after a song has started that follows a song showing cover art, the<br>> previous song's cover art flashes on the screen for about a second. I<br>> get a slight stutter when this happens. Any idea what could be<br>
> causing this?<br>><br><br></div></div>Has nobody else had this problem when using visualizations that change<br>with every track?<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">_______________________________________________<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>I have not had your particular problem but a suggestion would be to switch from using the OSS interface to ALSA.<br><br>Richard<br>