[arch-general] [arch-announce] GNOME3 in [testing]

[Mauro Santos]

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