Re: Successful 4.0 install on z50; issue playing mp3s

["Thomas Miller" <tilakkhana%gmail.com@localhost>]

hi!

i think you may be right about the audigy 2 zs being 32 bit. the
picture on this page

     
http://www.soundblaster.com/products/product.asp?category=1&subcategory=205&product=10769&nav=3

shows the gold grounding strip characteristic of 32 bit cards

i think there is or was an emuxki driver for the audigy cards

have you tried a music .wav file on your netbsd z50? the voice
recorder application in wince will play .wav files.

cheers!

tom

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Khoa Tran <piper_the%hotmail.com@localhost> 
wrote:
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> Unfortunately, I've never been able to play mp3 audio successfully on my z50. 
> Also, I highly doubt a pcmcia audio card will work, as I've not seen anything 
> in the kernel config in terms of drivers, and also, I highly doubt they were 
> 16-bit, non-cardbus cards.
>
> But if anyone has had success playing mp3s, I'd love to hear about it too!
>
>
> ~k
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>> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:32:29 -0400
>> From: tilakkhana%gmail.com@localhost
>> To: port-hpcmips%netbsd.org@localhost
>> Subject: Successful 4.0 install on z50; issue playing mp3s
>>
>> hi!
>>
>> i installed netbsd-hpcmips 4.0 on a z50 which has the extra memory
>> card. i could not get the pbsdboot supplied with netbsd 4.0 to run
>> under wince on this z50, but hpcboot worked. now my z50 successfully
>> has compiled lots of software with pkgsrc. i thank all the developers
>> who have made netbsd so terrific!
>>
>> a major issue i am experiencing is that when i tried to play an mp3
>> the music was recognizable, but there are lots of hesitations and wow
>> and flutter. for what it is worth, the problems seem significantly
>> worse using mpg321 compared to either madplay or sox (play), both of
>> which seem to work about equally poorly on my z50 here. the fractional
>> load figures displayed by top while playing the mp3 suggest that the
>> problems are not being caused by overloading. i found in the archives
>> for this list both reports of success and reports of failure playing
>> music on the z50 with different versions of netbsd-hpcmips.
>>
>> has anyone been successful playing mp3s on a z50 using the generic
>> kernel supplied with netbsd-hpcmips 4.0? if yes, what player works for
>> you?
>>
>> are there kernel options not enabled in generic that might be enabled
>> to play mp3s better?
>>
>> i don't have one, but has anybody tried a pcmcia audio card, for
>> example the audigy 2 zs, on a z50 with hpcmips 4.0?
>>
>> thanks again!
>>
>> tom
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