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rbhawaii:
Hi This happens with many songs but not all. It is in 3.9.1 and 3.10 (maybe earlier versions too but did not try them)
When I use my self-made WPS and turn on my self-made eq.cfg file which is ...

eq enabled: on
eq precut: 0
eq band 0 cutoff: 60
eq band 1 cutoff: 200
eq band 2 cutoff: 800
eq band 3 cutoff: 4000
eq band 4 cutoff: 12000
eq band 0 q: 7
eq band 1 q: 10
eq band 2 q: 10
eq band 3 q: 10
eq band 4 q: 7
eq band 0 gain: 50
eq band 1 gain: 35
eq band 2 gain: 15
eq band 3 gain: 55
eq band 4 gain: 105

While its on the WPS screen it freezes every 8 seconds for half a second or so.
here is one of the many songs for example...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19766273/FreezesEvery8secs.mp3

as you can hear the song on its own never skips and is recorded correctly but the ipod with eq enabled and with the wps makes it skip (and many other songs too)

the interesting thing is when the screen fades out and turns off it no longer skips also if i press the middle button and get off the WPS screen it no longer skips. when i go back to the playing screen it starts to skip again. if i turn all eq settings off it no longer skips.  What do you think? any advice would be greatly appreciated! I really dont want to give up using my WPS i love it to much. Please Help :)

PS i have deleted .rockbox folder and done a clean reinstall and have tried this on several ipod videos 5.5 - same problem.
attached the wps file

Buschel:
The skipping seems to be cause by a too high CPU load. The EQ consumes quite some CPU and your custom WPS seems to just pushes the CPU-load over the limit. This is why you do not experience any skipping when the screen goes off or you leave the WPS (no WPS screen updates active anymore).

rbhawaii:
That really sucks , is there any way for me to fix it?

Did you look at my WPS? I thought it was fairly basic tags with no graphics... ?

It freezes even if nothing is scrolling on the screen. 

Do you think the peak meter is sucking to much cpu and removing it might fix it?

Thanks for your time and help!

Buschel:
The peak meter is the worst case scenario for an iPod Video WPS (see http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/10686). Remove the peak meter and you will be much happier.

Btw, even if there are is no dropout or skipping audible the peak meter and the EQ require lots of CPU-time. As a result you will experience drastically reduced battery runtime.

rbhawaii:
I see your point, although I have had the peak meter going for years now and have really gotten used to it being there. It's only recently that I decided I want to run the eq all the time and that is when I noticed it makes the music stutter. I guess I could write a config file called "EQ ON.cfg" that will deactivate the peak meter and a "EQ OFF.cfg" that will reactivate it. I just can't believe my WPS is more complex then some really fancy themes with graphics and those dont skip.  Thanks for your advice. If anyone else reading this has any additional input for me I would really appreciate it! 

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