Adam Rosenberg wrote: > I am trying to decode 8 MP3 files simultaneously. Each file is 3 > minutes 11 seconds long. When I just decode the files and copy the > PCM data to memory it takes 2 minutes 36 seconds. When I do the same > test after opening 8 ALSA PCM streams and while writing data to them > it takes 4 minutes 37 seconds. This is much too slow for what should > be a simple copy operation. Are you using the "hw" device? Otherwise, it's not a simple copy op. How much CPU does "aplay -D hw -t raw -f dat /dev/zero" use? Regards, Clemens _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel