On 27 February 2011 14:44, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset <jpx...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/2/27 Jared Norris <jrnor...@gmail.com> >> >> On 27 February 2011 13:10, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset <jpx...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Mike: >> > >> > 2011/2/26 Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset <jpx...@gmail.com> >> >> >> >> 2011/2/26 Mike Nokel <mno...@gmail.com> >> >>> >> >>> Hi! >> >>> I have just tested some audio players in my Lubuntu Maverick and I >> >>> want >> >>> to share my experience with you. First of all, my testing machine was >> >>> Asus >> >>> EEE PC 1015 pn. It has Atom N550 inside and 2 GB of memory. >> >>> Firstly, I have installed deadbeef. I don't know whether it is a bug >> >>> or >> >>> not but after playing from one to three songs it stops playing at all. >> >>> So >> >>> this player was removed. >> >>> Then I have read about audacious in this mail's list. I have installed >> >>> it >> >>> and it looked very nice, but used ~28% of my CPU. This was too big for >> >>> me, >> >>> so this player was also removed. >> >>> Then I have found decibel audio player. This one used ~18% of my CPU >> >>> and >> >>> had very simple, but nice interface. >> >>> I have also tried pogo audio player. It used ~16% of my CPU. >> >>> So, now about two winners in this small compettion in my opinion. >> >>> First >> >>> of them is pragha. It is very fast, has simple but nice interface, is >> >>> coded >> >>> in C++ and uses ~14% of my CPU. And the second is alsaplayer. It has >> >>> nice >> >>> interface, equalizer and some available plugins that can imitate >> >>> winamp >> >>> style. It uses ~12% of my CPU. So I think that this is the best one >> >>> for me. >> >>> P.S. All of these players use nearly the same amount of memory. >> >>> P.P.S. All digits were taken from htop utility. >> >>> Best regards, >> >>> Mike Nokel >> >> >> >> Mike: >> >> I tried severall players for Lubuntu, and for me audacious win because: >> >> - CPU doesn't get over 18% on an P3 at 768(1000) mhz >> >> - It was the app consumming less RAM among all (this is a hard point to >> >> me >> >> because at the time i did those tests i use to have 256ram) >> >> - I can throw to it almost anything, it's codecs are very large >> >> The amount of CPU you're experiencing it's maybe due that you tried it >> >> freshly installed or changed from GTK skin to winamp skin or >> >> viceversa... in >> >> those cases the cpu consuming gets crazy (don't know why). Just try it >> >> after >> >> a reboot without touching anything to the conf :) >> >> In an old machine i have, it is the only player that i could get to >> >> work >> >> without messing with the sound output. >> >> Julien also commented something about audacious development that was a >> >> good thing to Lubuntu... >> >> Anyway, i will test those players you're pointing, maybe effectively >> >> one >> >> of them is better than audacious... i'm having some desapointments with >> >> the >> >> latest versions of it (but i hope they will fix it) >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Jpxsat >> > >> > Decibel has gstreamer dependecies... something that in Lubuntu i don't >> > think >> > we are very friend of. >> > Pogo and Pragha are not in the repositories (at least for 10.04) so it >> > generates a problem for the Lubuntu team as they have to take in charge >> > another package... (and so, i didn't even tried them) >> > Alsa-Player is in the repos, no huge dependencies and it really >> > impressed me >> > about the cpu consumption, but taking a quick look at it, resulted that >> > it's >> > a very incomplete software... starting with the fact that it has no >> > autoplay >> > :( Audacious if a little more heavy for the CPU but it's a very complete >> > piece of software ;) >> > -- >> > jpxsat >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop >> > Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > >> > >> >> Just a quick question. I have been using exaile for years now on gnome >> and was wondering if it would be suitable? It has some gstreamer >> dependencies though so if this is a deal breaker I guess not. The only >> thing is I have been using it as a full features program on a quad >> core box and it idles along under 1% cpu usage but I don't have the >> ability to test it on older hardware so thought I'd just mention and >> see if anyone has the ability to test this or not. >> >> Regards, >> >> Jared Norris JP(Qual) BBehSc(Psych) >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris > > > Just tested Exaile, the CPU runs fine (17~25%), but it's a little more than > Audacious (13~17%). But i can see crearly why is not an option for Lubuntu: > it consumes 40mb Ram vs Audacious that consumes 17~18mb Ram > Besides, for simplicity packages audacious are just 2... for exaile there > are plenty of it (wich i don't know if it's a bad thing or not, but an app > with just 2 packages seems simplier to me ;) > > > > -- > jpxsat > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
Thanks for testing that, sorry it's not a real option but I've just found it reasonably good for large play lists so thought it was worth a shot. I should look at audacious at some stage myself I guess. I agree though, the less we can do "specifically for Lubuntu" the better, so anything that's in the repositories already has my vote. Regards, Jared Norris JP(Qual) BBehSc(Psych) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp