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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 09:36:32AM +0300, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> 
> DRFI>BTW, all modern soundcards support multiple opens, so esd/nas is
> DRFI>really only useful for remote apps. And I don't see the sense in
> 
> You are wrong. Windows drivers emulate this much better that linux/*bsd
> ones, so problems are more noticable here, but only soundcards with more
> or less powerful processors support multiple opens. All Creative ones
> starting from Live! and old Vortex series for example. All modern cards
> from Terratec, although I don't know if they are supported under linux.

I'm sorry, I guess I wasn't aware that people actually _use_ the junky
onboard sound. Last I checked, most onboard chipsets also had the
stereo channels backwards in half the modes and had horrible audio
quality.

> But low-grade cards such as cmedia and most of onboard audio doesn't do
> hardware mixing, and linux kernel doesn't emulate it.

And for good reason -- the kernel shouldn't emulate it. The cpu load
in kernelspace would be horrible, not to mention the bogus results the
timing ioctl's would probably return with emulation.

Rich