On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 16:41 -0500, carmen wrote: > On Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 01:59:29PM -0600, Victor Roetman wrote: > > > > (and I really wish there was a jack backend for gstreamer) > > there is. it didnt work very well for me (worse than alsa+plug:jack, just like XINE) but you might want to give it a shot carmen, judging from the rest of your post, CPU usage was the main issue. this is actually not a consequence of the JACK sink directly, but the appalling unoptimized resampling code in gstreamer. if you connect the JACK sink up to a stream that is already at the JACK sample rate, i have found you see the expected (low) CPU utilization. the gstreamer guys know about this, but there is nobody available or with the know-how to speed it up. libsamplerate is not an option, apparently, because of the license :((
