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

[Matthew Monaco]

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?