From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 2 20:54:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from area51.v-wave.com (area51.v-wave.com [24.108.26.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1337937B5A3 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 20:54:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from flatline@area51.v-wave.com) Received: (qmail 15819 invoked by uid 1001); 3 Mar 2000 04:55:20 -0000 Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 21:55:20 -0700 From: Chris Wasser To: John Reynolds~ Cc: wsanborn@uswest.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xmms 1.0.1 uses 95% cpu Message-ID: <20000302215519.A15748@area51.v-wave.com> References: <20000223215739.B326@marder-1> <38BE3C3C.17337.42ADED6@localhost> <14526.45359.533982.635973@hip186.ch.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <14526.45359.533982.635973@hip186.ch.intel.com>; from jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com on Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 11:21:35AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 11:21:35AM -0700, John Reynolds~ wrote: > With 0.9.5.1 the scope and volume controls update and "respond" normally to > mouse events, etc. It just chews the crap out of CPU. With 1.0.1, the scope It's been a while since I've used xmms (and x11amp before that) but I switched to gqmpeg because of memory and cpu consumptions issues I've had in the past with this software. GQmpeg uses a themeable GTK interface and uses mpg123 (which under 4.0, which I'm running, you can optimize quite nicely by hand in the ports tree [egcs rocks]) and I've NEVER seen mpg123 take anything more then 3-5% of cputime. It supports streaming audio and the volume slider has yet to affect the CPU that I've noticed. The only thing it doesn't have that xmms does is the EQ [but if you're like me, you're piping sound card output through your stereo and using real equipment to equalize.] relevant info: FreeBSD area51.v-wave.com 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: Thu Feb 24 01:43:52 MST 2000 root@area51.v-wave.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/AREA51 i386 flatline 15794 3.2 3.5 7720 4428 ?? Ss 9:50PM 0:04.68 mpg123 -v -k 0 -b 1024 /home/flatline/Garbage - The World is not Enough.mp3 Never seen it past those values doing anything related with gqmpeg/mpg123 and mp3 playback. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message