[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Sound playback on background

[Artur Biesiadowski <abies@xxxxxxxxx>]

Kontorotsui wrote:
> 
> In the game I'm writing in Java (JDK1.2 pre-v2) I have added sound playback on
> background, by using the standard AudioClip.play() and loop() methods.
> 
> Beside the fact that there is no way to set the volume *groan*, I noticed that
> soon the sound, even if it is a midi music, is interrupted regularly, say once
> per second.
> 
> Needless to say, this doesn't happen in *argh* windows, so must be Java-Linux
> related.
> 
> I use the sunJIT and native threads. Disabling the JIT didn't work.
> 
> Does anybody know how to work around this problem?


Try disabling gc and check it again. If it dissapears, then you are just
experiencing gc pauses. I know it is good for real-time things like
sound/video, try to check JMF, maybe they have corrected it in some way
there.

Artur