On 09-04-2011 02:12, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > PA buffers better than ALSA, or is supposed to, in any case. Of > course, if you're using its ALSA-emulation that's a moot point. AFAICR > (haven't had this problem for ages), CPU usage from PA is basically > caused by the resampling, which you can just modify to a simpler > method if you don't need the higher quality of the default (speex, I > believe). I have been using the ffmpeg resample method because of that, it uses less cpu, or seems to use less cpu here, and with my setup I cannot detect any loss in quality, but hey, it is a laptop and the analog audio path is not stellar so ymmv. -- Mauro Santos
