[slim] Re: Sox using inordinate amount of CPU

2006-07-07 Thread knigma
I see runaway sox just as described above by jared1999 with slimserver 6.3 playing ogg files with a stock convert.conf file. sox: Version 12.18.1, FreeBSD 6.1 with perl 5.8.8. Does anyone have an understanding of the cause? -- knigma

[slim] Re: Sox using inordinate amount of CPU

2006-07-07 Thread knigma
knigma Wrote: I see runaway sox just as described above by jared1999 with slimserver 6.3 playing ogg files with a stock convert.conf file. sox: Version 12.18.1, FreeBSD 6.1 with perl 5.8.8. Does anyone have an understanding of the cause? I confirm that switching to oggdec solves the

[slim] Re: Sox using inordinate amount of CPU

2006-05-03 Thread jared1999
Did anyone solve this problem? The same thing happens with SlimServer v6.2.2 on Gentoo Linux x86-64 with Sox v12.17.19. If a vorbis track plays out the Sox process dies normally. However, if playback is interrupted (e.g. changing the track) the Sox process jumps to 100% cpu usage and never

[slim] Re: Sox using inordinate amount of CPU

2006-05-03 Thread jared1999
jared1999 Wrote: Can oggdec pipe to flac instead of sox? Bandwidth is more important to me than cpu usage. If I had just browsed through convert.conf sooner I would have seen that the previous conversion does exactly that. -- jared1999

[slim] Re: Sox using inordinate amount of CPU

2005-05-31 Thread cliveb
bmccall Wrote: I have slim server 6.0.2 on windows XP with 500 ram and 500 cpu. Each time I play something from my ogg playlist using sox and try to change to a new playlist or clear the playlist, sox consumes 90+ % of the CPU for two or three minutes. The playlist does not clear or change

[slim] Re: Sox using inordinate amount of CPU

2005-05-31 Thread stuorguk
I have the same problem on my Linux box ever since I upgraded to version 6. V5 was better, but also slow. If I browse my music folder, my squeezebox regularly looses contact. It's not just ogg files either. The SB should be running under a separate thread. Surly it shouldn't be loosing