Hi,

In my apartment we have an nfs network, with a computer in the sitting room connected to the televisison/sound system. No music is local to this machine, it's elsewhere and mounted over this nfs.

When I use amarok to play my music here, it pauses every 15/30 seconds for a short period, for what I believe to be reads.

I'm fairly sure that even a small buffer will sort this problem - mplayer & xmms/audacious have no problem running normally with the default settings.

Presumably, any buffers would need to be configured in xine, but I didn't find anything helpful my amarok xine-config.

Any help with this or other suggestions would be appreciated. I would also be open to moving to the helix engine if I thought it could handle this better.

thanks, andrew.

You probably want to modify this setting in ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/xine-config

engine.buffers.audio_num_buffers:230

Bumping up the number to something greater than 230 should solve the issue.

To troubleshoot:

• play the files with xine, not amarok.
• Tweak the xine settings till it works
• Copy ~/.xine/config  to ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/xine-config

Ramblurr wrote:You probably want to modify this setting in ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/xine-config

engine.buffers.audio_num_buffers:230

I put it up to 1000 and things didn't seem much better, so I'd assumed it wasn't what I wanted and moved on.

I'll try a more scientific tweaking

thanks