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

[Ben Boeckel]

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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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