Renicing the MP3 player to -19 would definitly help here, also using an MP3 player that doesnt rely heavily on (or at all on) X may help too. Using ISA sound and video at the same time, I doubt there is any way to prevent skipping (buying a PCI video card would help, speeding up the ISA bus in CMOS settings may help as well, but may cause other problems in some systems) Renicing a process effects how much processor time the system is willing to allow a process to have. Processes with the most negetive nice value can be extremely greedy (and hence not nice, LOL) and consume the most CPU resources. An extremely processor intensive but non-interactive application, such as the lifesearch simulation (searches thru possible patterns for the xlife simulation game) ought to be renice'd to 20, however, so that it doesnt consume system resources when a user is trying to do other things, but rather, uses CPU time that would otherwise go unused... *In Winblows, there is no unused CPU time, when nothing is happening, the windows OS waits for nothing to happen some more. This helps ensure the CPU operates at maximum possible temperature and burns out fastest, hopefully (for microsoft's point of view) resulting in the purchase of a new system with yet another Winblows license... > Would renicing processes help with the problems I am having playing mp3's? I > am using AfterStep for a window manager, and whenever I move a window and my > mp3 player is playing(any of them actually) it chokes the player and makes > it sound like a skipping CD. My icecast server(or the streamer) seem to have > the same problems. Would renicing help? What kind of effects does renicing > have on processes? -- jkenner@mindspring.com __ I Support Linux: _> _ _ |_ _ _ _| Working Together To <__(_||_)| )| `(_|(_)(_| To Build A Better Future. |