On 30/04/10 14:56, Simon Royal wrote:
Wayne Under XP it plays MP3 fine. I know it isn't the fastest machine in the world, but it should at least make some noise. I don't even here the start up noise. I am not sure how to play from command line.
Well yes...I am just thinking that exaile/gstreamer/pulseaudio etc probably aren't targeted to that sort of hardware so there may be a performance bug that appears on your machine. Linux sound now goes through about a million subsystems before it hits the speaker.
apt-get install mpg123 and them mpg123 filename.mp3 would eliminate at least a few and then we could look at if there is an alternate gui player or a configuration option in exaile that would use an alternate path.
Also playing a raw pcm encoded stream would be a lot easier on the hardware and so prove if the rest of the sound configuration is at least working well enough that we could expect sound.
The start up sounds and other sounds in the gui are ogg's which again have a reasonable cpu overhead to play (maybe even more overhead than mp3's) and again go via gstreamer in the default configuration I believe.
again these tests aside, running top in a console whilst they are playing (or trying to play) would at least be likely to give an indication as to if the CPU was the bottleneck