Running out of buffer.
Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 12:59 am
Earlier today, I had this problem that couldn't really be fixed.
It seems that something is happening that makes the buffer gradually go down to 0% resulting in a the song hanging on playback. It isn't that the buffer isn't able to catch up so it eventually goes to 0%, it actually sits at around 95-99% until it starts dropping about 10% per half-second for sme unknown reason. The only solution seemed to be to pause. wait about 5 seconds, then unpause, though this would happen after about 2 minutes of playback so it kinda had to be done at least twice a song.
I am using the FX_Burst output plugin, but I doubt that it is the problem because no such problem existed in winamp using it. This is how I can see the buffer's progress.
Here's everything I modified through windows, mediamonkey and my plugins and nothing seemed to work, and I mean they had zero effect:
Enabled disk caching on my external HD that all files are kept in
Removed the page file from the external HD, re-enabled it later
Closing MM windows such as artwork, playlist, didn't do anything
Changed the output setting from 24-bit to 20-bit to 16-bit, none of which stopped this behaviour
Turned off various plugin options to reduce processing consumption
edited MSconfig.exe and removed the options for "conservative swap file" and "video bus throttle", removed some more services while I was there.
Changed processor to optimize for background services
It seems that something is happening that makes the buffer gradually go down to 0% resulting in a the song hanging on playback. It isn't that the buffer isn't able to catch up so it eventually goes to 0%, it actually sits at around 95-99% until it starts dropping about 10% per half-second for sme unknown reason. The only solution seemed to be to pause. wait about 5 seconds, then unpause, though this would happen after about 2 minutes of playback so it kinda had to be done at least twice a song.
I am using the FX_Burst output plugin, but I doubt that it is the problem because no such problem existed in winamp using it. This is how I can see the buffer's progress.
Here's everything I modified through windows, mediamonkey and my plugins and nothing seemed to work, and I mean they had zero effect:
Enabled disk caching on my external HD that all files are kept in
Removed the page file from the external HD, re-enabled it later
Closing MM windows such as artwork, playlist, didn't do anything
Changed the output setting from 24-bit to 20-bit to 16-bit, none of which stopped this behaviour
Turned off various plugin options to reduce processing consumption
edited MSconfig.exe and removed the options for "conservative swap file" and "video bus throttle", removed some more services while I was there.
Changed processor to optimize for background services
