On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Matthew Monaco <dgbaley27@verizon.net> wrote:
On 04/09/2011 04:46 AM, Mauro Santos wrote:
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.
Hmm, I tried that, didn't seem to help. In fact it's super frustrating now because VLC is back to use ~16% CPU again no matter what resample method I use and what audio output option I choose.
Also, does anyone know what is restarting pulseaudio after I --kill? Is it gnome-shell?
I believe it uses dbus activation so it could be any pulseaudio client...