> I tried that on 3 different soundcards. I don't get vlc as a htop COMMAND. It is always /usr/bin/vlc.
I swear I'm using the native VLC from the Debian repos. > Please tell me how you fired up vlc. I started VLC through OpenBox's menus, and on that menu the command to start VLC is simply 'vlc', which probably translates to 'bash -c vlc'. If I open a media file from the file manager, and there's no running instance of VLC, I get "/usr/bin/vlc --started-from-file" as the command name under htop. > The %CPU usage isn't reproducible on none of the soundcards handy for me. Have you actually tried it on a ALC887-VD or a similar integrated chip by Realtek? > I don't know how you got foobar2000 into Debian but this isn't¬ > maintained in the repos, so not relevant to this bug. I did not get it through Debian, I simply installed it in the default Wine prefix. > Try to cancel all pulseaudio stuff and test again. Let me know.... I apologise, I think I did not mention this in the initial bug report, but I'm not using PA, nor do I have it installed. That's why I submitted this bug against ALSA.
