On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 13:59 -0400, Ben Boeckel wrote: > > Subject: Re: The Great Pulseaudio Mixer Debate: a > modest (productive) > > proposal > > From: Ben Boeckel <MathStuf@xxxxxxxxx> > > To: fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > 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 Check your logs. This is quite possibly the difference between "My hardware does 44.1khz natively" and "My hardware only does 48000khz and playing anything but a DVD requires resampling". Later Intel chipsets all seem to be the latter.
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