-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/29/2009 08:21 AM, Callum Lerwick wrote: > 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. > Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I also have a huge CPU hit on my 4+ year old laptop, and I am sure that it handles different sampling rates without much difficulty. So, my question is, what logs can I check to find out if this is happening (if I understood the message correctly)? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkn4UlAACgkQaVgOCFr0s2KwTgCfWGEoSEn2yRnTOJnY9tG0X1ao ZE0An3RfHfZ4fMLSZosCCNSh2l41wSeQ =7CR8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
