On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 23:43 +0100, Bruno Kleinert wrote: > i've got an athlon 64 and an athlon xp, both with a "creative > soundblaster live!" pci sound card and an intel ac97 onboard sound > chip. on both machines playback works with a very low cpu load on the > sb live card. when i redirect the sound output to the onboard card, > rhythmbox eats up nearly exactly 50% of the cpu on both machines. > i used gconf's "musicadiosink" entry to redirect the music output, which > i had to point at 'alsasink device="hw:1,0"'. when i have rhythmbox use > a "dmix" virtual sound card on top of the onboard sound card, rhythmbox > does not use half of the cpu time. > here's my asound.conf for the onboard intel card: > [ config snipped ] > > i can reproduce the cpu-intensive behaviour, with rhythmbox > packages 0.11.2-1 and 0.10.1-1+b2. i didn't try any other versions of > the package.
Hi,
Is this specific to Rhythmbox, or does it happen with other GStreamer
based players?
You should be able to try this by using a gstreamer pipeline, like this:
gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri="file:///path/to/my/musicfile.ogg"
You will need the gstreamer0.10-tools package.
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Sven Arvidsson
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