[MPlayer-users] MPlayer consumes 30% of my Athlon XP 2200! plz help help lower this!

[ephemeron at softhome.net]

On 14. December 2003 at 9:03AM -0800,
rcooley <rcooley at spamcop.net> wrote:

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> > If I were you, I'd stop using esd. Not because it's
> > particularly CPU hungry, but just 'cause it's shit.
>
> I understand the sentiment, but so far there's no real
> alternative that I know of.  I certainly hope NAS will turn out
> well, but until then...

But what's the benefit of using esd over using raw oss or alsa?