real player 10 and nvidia NFORCE2 sound chipset
Carlo Orecchia
carlo at numb.darktech.org
Thu Nov 25 16:36:29 UTC 2004
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Carlo Orecchia wrote:
>> i have problems using real player 10 with the nforce sound chipset. If I
>> use a sound card like a creative pci 64 everything works fine. But with
>> the onboard sound chipset real player hangs at some point when reproducing
>> a file. The audio stops and the image is played very very slow.
>> Does anybody have any clue why this is happening?
>
> I asked:
>> Can you take a look at the top program (from the shell) while you're
>> using "Real Player"?
>>
>> I'd be interested to note what happens to the CPU percentages: does the
>> system spend a long time under "sy"stem, or is it all "us"er?
>>
>> Also keep an eye on exactly which programs are taking up system time.
>>
>> Are you playing "Real Media", or are you playing MP3s?
>
> He replied:
>> this is my ps aux
>>
>> carlo 8376 0.0 0.1 4376 1056 ? S 22:43 0:00 /bin/sh
>> /usr/bin/realplay
>> carlo 8381 1.3 1.7 55672 13296 ? Sl 22:43 0:01
>> /usr/local/bin/realplay.bin
>> carlo 8383 0.0 0.6 22200 5220 ? S 22:43 0:00
>> /usr/local/bin/realplay.bin
>> carlo 8384 0.0 0.6 22200 5220 ? S 22:43 0:00
>> /usr/local/bin/realplay.bin
>
> Interesting, but not sufficient.
>
> If you aren't sure what I was looking at in top, can you start playing
> something, run
> vmstat 5 5
> from the command line and post the results?
>
> I can't see whether you are CPU limited, and if so, what the CPU is
> doing.
>> i play real media and mp3s. For both the problem is the same. Whem i play
>> mp3 is very low and the commands are executed seconds after.
>> I don't understand why if i change sound card i have no problems.
>> Could it be because the sound chipset i use has very poor drivers? I can't
>> mix channels for example and so i can't execute 2 or more sounds at the
>> same time.
>
> For good measure, could you post the results of
> lsmod
> please?
> I want to see which module you're using for sound.
>
> Thanks,
>
> James.
>
vmstat gives me
[carlo at numb ~]$ vmstat 5 5
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system--
----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
1 0 116 11192 164112 403052 0 0 186 10 69 20 1 0 98 0
0 0 116 10480 164120 403500 0 0 90 36 1330 1432 4 2 94 0
0 0 116 10472 164128 403500 0 0 0 17 1259 1355 3 1 96 0
0 0 116 9376 164128 404368 0 0 154 3 1341 1516 5 2 93 0
0 0 116 9300 164136 404468 0 0 0 216 1348 1372 3 1 95 0
lsmod:
[carlo at numb ~]$ /sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by
radeon 136964 2
parport_pc 27456 1
lp 12524 0
parport 46536 2 parport_pc,lp
ipt_state 2176 20
ipt_REJECT 7296 1
autofs4 28036 0
iptable_filter 3200 1
ip_nat_ftp 5616 0
iptable_nat 26180 2 ip_nat_ftp
ip_conntrack_irc 72496 0
ip_conntrack_ftp 73392 1 ip_nat_ftp
i2c_dev 11904 0
i2c_core 24320 1 i2c_dev
ip_conntrack 45620 5
ipt_state,ip_nat_ftp,iptable_nat,ip_conntrack_irc,ip_conntrack_ftp
ip_tables 17920 4
ipt_state,ipt_REJECT,iptable_filter,iptable_nat
md5 4608 1
ipv6 269376 14
ppp_synctty 12416 0
ppp_async 13696 1
crc_ccitt 2432 1 ppp_async
ppp_generic 41364 6 ppp_synctty,ppp_async
slhc 8448 1 ppp_generic
hsfusbcd2 46736 0
hsfmc97ali 53780 0
hsfmc97via 51864 0
hsfmc97ich 53648 0
hsfpcibasic2 59024 1
hsfserial 24228 7
hsfusbcd2,hsfmc97ali,hsfmc97via,hsfmc97ich,hsfpcibasic2
hsfengine 1222820 1 hsfserial
hsfosspec 107876 8
hsfusbcd2,hsfmc97ali,hsfmc97via,hsfmc97ich,hsfpcibasic2,hsfserial,hsfengine
hsfsoar 52608 4
hsfmc97ali,hsfmc97via,hsfmc97ich,hsfpcibasic2
button 6928 0
battery 9220 0
ac 5124 0
ohci_hcd 25348 0
ehci_hcd 36996 0
snd_intel8x0 38348 1
snd_ac97_codec 73552 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 61992 0
snd_mixer_oss 21120 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 122632 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 36100 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 10760 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
gameport 5376 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart 10368 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi 31268 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8968 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 64228 11
snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 11232 1 snd
forcedeth 21760 0
8139too 30336 0
mii 5376 1 8139too
floppy 65712 0
ext3 120040 2
jbd 88728 1 ext3
that's it
thanks for your help
carlo
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