Mike: 2011/2/26 Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset <[email protected]>
> 2011/2/26 Mike Nokel <[email protected]> > > 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
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