On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:12:49PM +0100, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
On 23 April 2012 21:57, Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote: I have an Acer Aspire One 751h which has a 1.33GHz Intel Atom Z520 CPU.
It seems unable to decode radio streams that run at 128k, all BBC radio streams stutter hopelessly whether I use a dedicated application (radiotray) or try listening using iPlayer in Firefox.
Encode yourself an mp3 from a CD (that you own) at average bitrate of 128k. Play back on the same machine.
Exactly the same effect - intermittent playback. I'm using exaile to play it.
I've just tried parole, identical. Running top shows parole using around 21% of CPU with pulseaudio at 15%, parole occasionally goes higher on CPU usage.
Finally tried totem and that actually does a bit better, manages to play the MP3 almost acceptably, but top shows it using around 80% of CPU. Actually it's not all that good, several breaks in playback just now.