Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Cross fading back end.

[Paul van Tilburg <paul luon net>]

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 03:47:41AM +0100, Chris Norman wrote:
> Just out of interest, what results have people had with the crossfading
> back end?

It works, but for webradio the playing status is always weird/wrong.

> I tried it on ubuntu 6.10 up to my current 7.10, and I've always had
> problems with it.
> 
> I find that the playback buffers a lot, maybe a half a second playback,
> followed by half a second silence indefinately, and my system slows down
> when using, this is especially when playing m4a files.

Ah, yes!  So, I research last weekend why RB was using 15-20% CPU while
gst-launch using playbin only used 5-8%.  I found out that the crossfade
backend is to blame.  Also it seems that if I do run `lsof`, RB seems to
have several music files opened that have been played hours ago.

Paul

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