On 23 April 2012 22:38, Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
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.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/52837-20-sound-problem-acer-aspire-751h
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.
Hmm. Are all those using gstreamer as the back-end?
I had audio issues over the weekend when trying to find out why older games have sound lag or mute. Seems if I disable PulseAudio temporarily, it made things work better. Also was looking at audacious2 and mplayer playing via Alsa. Both play fine except when dmix is used to play simultaneous - in my experimentation if the 'floatle' encoding is not used, there's a lot of choppyness.
Maybe install mplayer and all the codecs and play with -ao and -af options?
Regards, Srdjan