[vorbis] Jerkiness in player on some songs

Rik Hemsley rik at kde.org
Sun Jul 1 14:55:53 PDT 2001



#if Lance Paine
> What could be causing my player to skip, and repeat (ie Jerky) with
> some songs and not others?
> I am just using a timer and checking the buffer. Could it be that with
> the troublesome files the are extra empty packets (or something) that
> cause this timer approach to be inadequate?
> I usually have no, problems, just with one or two files, and they play
> correctly in winamp
> I'm using beta encoder, and plugin, and vorbisfile.

You're probably not feeding the audio device fast enough to keep up with 
it. Do you have some kind of buffering (in a separate process/thread) for 
the output ? If not, get some, or put the input in a separate 
process/thread with a buffer.

Rik

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