On Thu, 22 May 2003, Paul Vandenberg wrote: > 2. I had asked a while back about Noatun and got a reply that I needed > arts-devel installed. I did that and Noatun now plays my Ogg files. > However, it is very choppy and the sound breaks up constantly. With > XMMS, no problem, sound is perfect. I then ran both while running KDE > System Guard. I found that with Noatun, I was constantly hitting 100% > CPU usage, while with XMMS, it was always under 20%. What gives? I am > running RH9 on a PII 350MHZ CPU with 128 Megs RAM. I had enough grief with noatun from RH9 that I stopped using it, even with arts-devel installed. It was spewing numerous error messages on the console. You might want to do yourself a favor and get the KDE RPMs from kde-redhat.sourceforge.net. Noatun works fine with minimal CPU load on my machine. Follow their directions there for using apt. The kde-redhat RPMs have a few advantages over the crippled Red Hat ones: 1. MP3 ripping works. 2. MP3 playback works. 3. Video playback works. KDE uses xine-libs now. 4. More recent versions. Currently 3.1.1a. 3.1.2 RPMs in testing. 5. Some KDE extras. Chris
