So, I'm seeing XMMS behave mighty strangely here. decode_example piped into a command line player manages to playback realtime on my p233 somewhat easily. XMMS (with the Vorbis plugin) utterly pegs the CPU and stutters badly. So, I started playing. Playing back mp3, xmms stutters badly (mp123 and xaudio play back realtime without difficulty). Playing back straight wav files, xmms also nearly pegs the CPU and skips alot (although it's not a continuous stutter). When playback is *paused*, xmms is taking up 80-100% of CPU. Peter, might you have any idea what would be wrong? System behavior is the same under Debian 2.0 [glibc2.0] and current [glibc2.1.2]. I'm using ALSA rather than OSS, my system libs should all be thread capable and I'm running linuxthreads 0.71. Monty --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Monty wrote:> decode_example piped into a command line player manages to playback realtime on > my p233 somewhat easily. XMMS (with the Vorbis plugin) utterly pegs the CPU > and stutters badly.I am also using a P233. I had no problems playing back vorbis in real-time in XMMS.> When playback is *paused*, xmms is taking up 80-100% of CPU.Decoding will continue until the buffer is full. As soon as xmms's buffer is full CPU usage drops off sharply. Tony Arcieri --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/
> That's really weird.Several people have said so at this point :-) Yes, I believe that xmms should be performing nicely on my box....> What version of XMMS and what output plugin are you > using? The OSS one or the native ALSA?xmms 0.9.5.1, tried both built from source and installed as a debian package. I'm using the OSS 0.9 output module as the ALSA module is marked as 'doesn't work with 0.9.5.1 yet'.> You shouldn't see any performace > problems on a P233, I have an old P100 myself at home which can handle > playback without any problems. Please let me know if you found out what > the problem is.Nope, no clues yet. Still looking. Monty --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/