Package: audacious
Version: 2.3-2
Severity: important
Tags: upstream
CPU Usage is too high when playing audio files. Considering old bug reports and
various internet sources, it seems to occur particularly with Intel HDA
(snd_hda_intel) soundcards, the model I have on this box.
On Intel Core2 CPU with "ondemand" governor (lowest freq.: 800Mhz) audacious
consumes about 12 to 35-40% of CPU according to top while playing a file on a
fresh Squeeze install.
This behavior is apparently not new[*], and still it is not sure wheter it
comes from a broken soundcard driver, alsa, or audacious. But other players do
not have such behavior...
The problem disappears if I change the ALSA Output plugin conf and manually
select the PCM device as "front" (Front Speakers), but with this solution other
apps are not able to play sound over audacious anymore. The soundcard is not
available anymore for them.
Anyway, while browsing the web[**] I found a workaround:
Edit ~/.asoundrc and paste this resamplig stuff:
------------
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm {
type dmix
ipc_key 1024
slave {
pcm "hw:0,0"
rate 44100
}
}
}
------------
Strange enough? :)
Fabien C.
[*] Archived bugs about audacious CPU usage (mid-2009) : #533559, #532081,
#588633
[**] http://boards.audacious-media-player.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=193
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
APT prefers squeeze-updates
APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.37 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages audacious depends on:
ii audacious-plugins 2.3+dfsg-1+b1 Base plugins for audacious
ii dbus 1.2.24-4 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii dbus-x11 1.2.24-4 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii gtk2-engines-pixbuf 2.20.1-2 Pixbuf-based theme for GTK+ 2.x
ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libaudclient2 2.3-2 audacious dbus remote control libr
ii libaudcore1 2.3-2 audacious core engine library
ii libaudid3tag2 2.3-2 audacious id3 tag manipulation lib
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo2 1.8.10-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-4 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.88-2.1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-2.1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 2:1.0.6-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libmcs1 0.7.1-1 Abstraction library to store confi
ii libmowgli1 0.6.1-1 a high performance development fra
ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-1+squeeze1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library
Versions of packages audacious recommends:
ii unzip 6.0-4 De-archiver for .zip files
audacious suggests no packages.
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