Problem playing music from USB hdd

[JanR24]

Hi,

I have made a quick search of this forum and a longer search on google but found no answer.

Here's the situation:
I have suse 10.1 a 1 year old laptop an external USB hdd with my mp3's on it.
When I play the mp3's when booted in winblows it works without a hitch. When using Suse I get every few seconds a hickup .... that is playing stops for a fraction of a second (stilll very noticeable) and then it continues playing.

Questions:
What is causing this;
How can I fix this;
If I provide too little info, what do you need to know;

Help on this is much appreciated. Solving this is one step closer to saying good bye to Windos as my desktop.

Regards,

Jan

[Alex Stan]

I have the same problem with playing movies from a cd/dvd.
I think it's because we didn't optimize it enought(you need to do it before playing), but i'm not sure.

[JanR24]

Hi Alex,

What exactly do you mean by optimizing? Do you have any specific settings I could check?

Kind regards,

Jan

[Alex Stan]

Try increasing the buffer size, that should resolve most intreruptions, i think.

[JanR24]

Buffersize... sounds about right. Any idea where I should look to change it?

I appreciate all help/advise!

Regards,

Jan

[Alex Stan]

Well if you use xmms it should be at the output plugin, so you need to configure the active output plugin.

[JanR24]

Problem resolved though cause is still unknown. The external harddisk had an unfortunate accident. It appears it cannot land very well from 1.5 meters high.

I had to buy a different harddrive (La Cie this time) and presto no intermittent hangups.

Regards and thanks for all tips and suggestions.

Jan