Sure, MPlayer (using also alsa autio output) playing from the same streaming source:
real 3m9.331s user 0m0.444s sys 0m0.132s During playback CPU usage is constant 0%, TIME reported by top just before interrupting playback to get the result was 0.53sec (so about half a sec). -- rhythmbox is slow! https://launchpad.net/bugs/73744 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs