The Great Pulseaudio Mixer Debate: a modest (productive) proposal

[Michael Cronenworth]

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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.