[wplug] XMMS skipping over wireless

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

On Wednesday 06 April 2005 10:32, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
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> Indeed, I have no problem with this on my desktop machine which runs
> Windows 2000 (and a 6-year-old Winamp 2.5 -- to get away from
> microsoft bloatware).  But on my laptop, running Debian Sarge on
> Linux 2.6.8, XMMS 1.2.10 and the alsa output plugin 1.2.10, I get
> skips.  It could be that the wireless card is wimpy but I don't think
> that could explain the frequency of the occurence (on the order of
> every 20 seconds).  I have the output plugin, libALSA.so, configured
> to buffer 5 sec (5000 ms) of data and it seems like that should be
> quite sufficient.

What about local playback? If you store the mp3s on your laptop, are 
there skips?

If yes, then it's a ALSA issue. Look through 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ for similar issues.

If not, it's networking (pretty slim chance).

-A