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Hello,

> > Yes, indeed, but why does the music stops for a bit ? Is it because=20
> > dbri0 is at a lower interrupt level ?
> >=20
>=20
> More likely because the cpu is not able to sustain the data rate to
> the output device - it cannot decode the mp3 fast enough to keep the
> stream going to the audio device.  My old laptops used to hitch and
> pause when I started compiling.

Exactly. I had things like this even with a Pentium 120 laptop. The MI
audio layer is supposed to insert silence when the userland client can't
keep up the data rate, but at 100% CPU load it's probably unable to do
that in time so you'll also get echoes sometimes.

have fun
Michael

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