The Great Pulseaudio Mixer Debate: a modest (productive) proposal
Ben Boeckel
MathStuf at gmail.com
Mon Apr 27 17:59:30 UTC 2009
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Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: The Great Pulseaudio Mixer Debate: a
modest (productive)
> proposal
> From: Ben Boeckel <MathStuf at gmail.com>
> To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
> Date: 04/27/2009 10:12 AM
>
>> I've had X lock up or temporarily freeze and
kaffeine
>> (playing through PA via xine) still plays. The only
way
>> I've been able to get it to skip is to force
basically
>> everything into swap with programs that take up 3+GB
of
>> RAM (making markov chains from big.txt takes...quite
a
>> bit in duck-typed languages). Maybe it's the dual
core
>> 3.0GHz, but I've found it hard to skip apps using
PA.
>> PA is taking 0% CPU and kaffeine jumps to 1% playing
>> flac files. Also, PA hasn't even jumped towards the
top
>> of usage at all in the past few minutes.
>
>
> That's amazing, because I have a 3ghz dual core and
PA takes ~10% CPU to
> play FLAC from Rhythmbox and can skip if I'm doing a
lot of work - say
> ffmpeg transcoding and moving files. Intel HD audio
(yes, generic)
> Analog Devices chip.
>
Maybe its a difference between xine and gstreamer?
% lspci | grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10
Family) HD Audio Controller
- --Ben
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