[iPod video 5.5G] - Terrible skipping on most recent daily build - r3719-070625

[LambdaCalculus]

Hi everybody, I'd like to ask if anyone else may be having issues with the most recent daily build for the iPod video.

I updated my build early this morning to r3719-070625, and I'm having terrible issues with music playback. Nearly everything I try to play seems to be continually causing buffer underruns, because the playback constantly stops, skips, or stutters at random intervals... and I hate to yell on forums (sorry, Llorean), but it's BLOODY ANNOYING AND IT'S DRIVING ME BONKERS!!  

I've tried several MP3s (all VBR), several Ogg Vorbis files (q5), and some FLAC files (compression level . The FLAC files work fine, but the MP3s and Vorbis files stutter like mad. I've also played a couple of Commodore 64 SIDs and some NSF files, but those are perfectly fine.

Could this be a possible bug? I want to ask everyone's opinion before I open a Bug Report for no good reason. If it is, then I'll just roll back a couple of days on my daily build.

[AlexP]

It probably won't help, but could you try resetting your settings?

[GodEater]

Version 13720-070626 here. No such issues.

[LambdaCalculus]

BigBambi: Fixed. Thanks, dude!


[edit] And the minute I put my settings back the way I had them before... BAM! Problem returns! Here's my config file:


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[LambdaCalculus]

I found out what it was: it was my database this entire time! I unloaded it from RAM since I don't use it anyway, rebuilt it (just to be on the safe side), and now the skipping's gone!

I think it was taking up too much RAM that could have been used to buffer music instead.

[AlexP]

Hmmm, unlikely - even the 30 Gb video has 32 Mb of RAM.  That being said, I can't help as to the cause of the problem I'm afraid.

[pixelma]

If I read the config file correctly, you are manipulating sound in every possible way (bass/treble, software equalizer and hardware equalizer). As far as I know, especially the software equalizer demands a lot of processing power and turning it off or using as few bands as possible is always one of the first suggestions to someone who experiences skipping on an Ipod. Besides I can't imagine that you really have control over the sound this way.

[LambdaCalculus]

That's why I took BigBambi's advice and reset the settings. That eliminated the skipping (besides rebuilding the database, oddly), and now I'm just using the hardware equalizer, not both software and hardware.