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Subject: Re: buffering changes

Re: buffering changes

From: Pedro Vasconcelos <pbv_at_st-andrews.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 10:17:06 +0100

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 11:21:13 +0300 (EEST)
Miika Pekkarinen <miipekk_at_ihme.org> wrote:

> The pcm buffer low watermark level was increased because some people were
> reporting problems that pcm buffer goes empty on certain situations. Now
> I have decreased the level much and I hope the current setting would
> prevent these problems from happening. However, if crossfade is enabled we
> need to keep the buffer always as filled as possible.

Hi Miika,

I suspected something like that --- however, I'm not using crossfade and
with Q6 oggs the buffer only drops to about 70% before starting
refilling again. This is clearly suboptimal; does the buffering
algorithm test for crossfade?

Pedro


-- 
Pedro Vasconcelos, School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews
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