<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>DSP takes a significant amount of horsepower. Ya don't get something for nothing; reading a hardware status bit or two is a lot less intensive at the expense of additional wiring and configuration statements in the config files than decoding the stream, deriving the signals, etc. any overhead in doing so is bound to have an effect on other streams going on at that time.</div><div><br></div><div>and we humans don't process breaks in audio as we do with visual perceptions.</div><div><br>--<div>Bryan</div><div>Sent from my iPhone 5...small</div><div>keyboard, big fingers...please</div><div>forgive misspellings...</div><div><br><div><br></div></div></div><div><br>On Sep 11, 2013, at 13:44, "George Csahanin" <<a href="mailto:george@dyb.com">george@dyb.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div>I have that exact problem if I use DSP, moved to COS and PTT on DB25 and it
stops. Did this in every case I tried, though the only platform I used was a
D945 or D201 Intel board.</div>
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<div>Ran 1GB of RAM and CPU is whatever a D945 is. </div>
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<div>GeorgeC</div>
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<div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a title="kuggie@kuggie.com" href="mailto:kuggie@kuggie.com">Kevin Custer</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 11, 2013 11:45 AM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="andy@ple.org" href="mailto:andy@ple.org">Andreas
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<div><b>Cc:</b> <a title="app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org" href="mailto:app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org">app_rpt-users@ohnosec.org</a> </div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [App_rpt-users] Distorted audio in
app_rpt/Allstar</div></div></div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/11/2013 12:20 PM, Andreas Pleschutznig
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<div>Best I can describe the effect is that the audio is time sliced in 20ms
packets and every other packet is missing, left out. and it does not happen
when audio is especially loud or quiet. Sometimes it happens on the time
announcements, which are absolutely perfect 99% of the time.
<br></div></blockquote><br>Sounds to me like a computer with too little RAM or
too little CPU horsepower.<br><br>When you run the top command, is it using swap
memory? If so, that's bad...and you need more
RAM.<br><br>Kevin<br><br></div></div></div>
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