On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:56:50AM +0100, Vincent Tabard wrote: > Philippe Marzouk a écrit : > > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:47:12AM +0100, Vincent Tabard wrote: > > > > This is CPU-expensive on my Via C3 1Ghz box unfortunately (around 45% > > for 128k transcoding). > > > > I am using icegenerator nowadays as my needs are really simple, I play > > at random all my files but I liked some features of liquidsoap like the > > ability to add requests or the stripping of blanks > Stripping blanks requires decoding :) >
I don't mind decoding as long as no recoding is necessary :) > Now, from my own experience, I don't advise you to try to do any > "realtime" encoding / decoding on your VIA processor, not only because > it will suck most of your CPU, but also because I noticed Lame tended to > crash quite often on this little things. By quite often I mean up to > several times a day. Don't ask me why, though :) > > Thus, I wouldn't recommend running Liquidsoap -- or any encoder for that > matter -- on VIA processors... I've had very bad times trying to do > transcoding on my VIA-based Dedibox. > I didn't intend to do it, using liquidsoap got me 45% load, this is way too much for my use. I seem to remember having read the integer unit on C3 cpus is very slow. Your problems may have been caused by bad RAM. The only time I had trouble with my box was when the RAM was faulty. Philippe
