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

[Sander Jansen]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Sander Jansen <s.jansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Matthew Monaco <dgbaley27 at 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...
>

Actually, not sure if that's entirely true what I just said. Now
'/etc/pulse/client.conf' does have a autospawn configuration option
which might prevent it from restarting.