[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Greenland): > ...but MPD is not a good solution for an N800 standalone player *at this > time*. There are two big issues.
I just have to say I've been using mpd exclusively as my media player for over a month and have been very happy with it (much more than my attempts with other media players). I mainly like it because it's unintrusive and I want a scriptable interface. > 1. CPU usage. MPD doesn't use the tremor vorbis library, and thus > playing an ogg sucks down about 75% of the CPU. In comparison, with > Kagu, the osso-media-server process uses about 25% of the CPU. (Kagu > sucks another 10-15% if the screen is active.) For me, playing mp3s, mpd always hovers around 10% cpu. I don't have oggs to play to compare. I can easily play songs while doing other things. And there's no noticeable difference with battery life compared to when I was using canola. I don't know enough about all the different ogg libraries but a quick search seems to indicate that mpd supports the tremor library. So it should be pretty trivial to get that working. > 2. As a straight port of the Debian MPD package, the mpd server restarts > automatically on reboot *and resumes playing the oggs*. This is not > good, because it slows down the rest of the reboot process quite a bit, > and, since there isn't any free CPU, it sounds *dreadful*. I personally changed the priority of mpd's start. I moved it to S99mpd in /etc/rc2.d so it doesn't start until after everything is loaded. And if it was playing before you rebooted, don't you want it to continue? _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users