Jesse Guardiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And no, before you ask, I don't think it's not Nokia's fault. gstreamer
> is just unexpectedly buggy. Too bad ALSA doesn't support inline mp3
> decoders... life would be easier for all of us...
I've been wondering: what is the performance hit for not going
through gstreamer? So based on my understanding, going through
gstreamer, the mp3 is decoded on the DSP. Supposing it was decoded
on the cpu and sent out through alsa, which of the following is
likely to be true:
- The CPU wouldn't be able to handle it (playback would skip)
- The CPU could handle it just as well as the DSP but the rest of
the system might be less usable
- The battery life would decrease (how much?)
- some other reason this wouldn't work well?
And the related question is: given an existing program that sends
stuff out to ALSA and doesn't use gstreamer, how difficult is it
generally to port it so that it works properly? By this, I'm
thinking of a typical C program that plays mp3 files. Would it
likely require a complete rework of the code structure or is it
probably a "trivial" replacement of function calls?
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