Sound problem -- better defined

[Tim Wunder]

Previously, Joel Hammer chose to write:
> I forgot just what your configuration was, but, maybe you can make the
> permissions on your /dev/dsp or whatever static, and permit only your user
> to access this device. BTW, I play my mp3's from a remote box (remote
> xsession) and don't have any trouble.
> Have you tried playing your mp3's from a virtual console with mpg123 ?
> Joel
>

No, but I'm not playing MP3's... but I'd sure like to know how you got yours 
set up ;-)

What I'm doing is recording vinyl lps as WAVs (with krecord) and cleaning 
them of background noise, pops and clicks with The Gnome Wave Cleaner (gwc). 
All on the host of any remote X session that might be going on. So I'm not 
logged in remotely, one of the other family members is (and it's only one, 
since we have only 2 PCs), and they're the ones interfering with the playback 
of the WAV file (alledgedly -- the jury's still out). That being said, I'm 
leaning away from it being a device permissions issue at all, and more likely 
a simple RAM issue. 
GWC will load the entire WAV file (as much as 70 or so MB) into RAM. I think 
the burden of that, plus a remote X session, plus whatever else I might have 
open locally is working my RAM pretty hard. That and the fact that GWC is 
beta code could be the cause of the problem. 
What I haven't tried, is whether any other multimedia apps experience a 
problem with playback when a remote X session is active. I'll probly test 
that tomorrow.
Thanks, 
Tim

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