Bug#613203: audacious: High CPU usage with snd_hda_intel based soundcard

2011-02-22 Thread Fabien C.
This is indeed a problem that has plagued Audacious on and off for years. It is apparently a bug in ALSA's DMix resampler, though still no one knows exactly what triggers it. Audacious 2.4.3 has a workaround

Bug#613203: audacious: High CPU usage with snd_hda_intel based soundcard

2011-02-22 Thread John Lindgren
On 02/22/2011 12:34 PM, Fabien C. wrote: Well, once again it seems that from both sides, it's the other side's fault. Though I claim that the root problem lies on the ALSA side, I am not so arrogant as to refuse to fix it on the Audacious side. As I mentioned before, I added a workaround in

Bug#613203: audacious: High CPU usage with snd_hda_intel based soundcard

2011-02-15 Thread John Lindgren
Hi Fabien, This is indeed a problem that has plagued Audacious on and off for years. It is apparently a bug in ALSA's DMix resampler, though still no one knows exactly what triggers it. Audacious 2.4.3 has a workaround

Bug#613203: audacious: High CPU usage with snd_hda_intel based soundcard

2011-02-15 Thread Fabien C.
Hi John, Thanks for the info, I should probably report a bug in ALSA in this case, given the Warning message from the workaround patch... Fabien C. PS: Sorry for my first message broken wrapping. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#613203: audacious: High CPU usage with snd_hda_intel based soundcard

2011-02-15 Thread Fabien C.
Here is the bugreport in the ALSA bugtracker: https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=5278 Oh, and I tested with the original Debian kernel as well, and it doesn't change anything. Fabien C. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#613203: audacious: High CPU usage with snd_hda_intel based soundcard

2011-02-13 Thread Fabien C.
Package: audacious Version: 2.3-2 Severity: important Tags: upstream CPU Usage is too high when playing audio files. Considering old bug reports and various internet sources, it seems to occur particularly with Intel HDA (snd_hda_intel) soundcards, the model I have on this box. On Intel Core2