[Wizard] Audio drivers

Mike Fineberg [email protected]
Tue Sep 16 00:19:11 2003



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On 16/09/2003 at 8:04 AM Scott Middleton wrote:

>On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 23:12, Mike Fineberg wrote:
>
>> 
>> I've found that comes from overly high CPU usage. In MS-DOS 7.x with
>MPX-Play or XTC-Player, I don't have those problems. [and they support
>keyboard/keypad commands, configurable]
>> 
>> (from plug to playing mp3s in under 25 seconds :-)
>
>Oh well :(
> i can't use M$ products because i have to buy them to avoid software
>piracy issues and that defeats the purpose of this box. 

http://www.freedos.org

done. :-)

>But i  am also
>setting up for use as a portable gateway/router and proxy/dns/dhcp
>server so i would have to dual boot it anyway.
>
>I figured it was CPU since i am not using swap at all. Anything on the
>screen at all and it skips. MP3Blaster likes to put stuff on the screen
>while the rest doesn't.

MPX-Player is very configurable about how much it puts on the screen (from multiple visualisation options, to text only vis, to 3, to 2, to 0 lines of output.)