Ahhh, okay, I see what you mean now. 1. Since your suggestion I am doing each test with gst-launch as as comparison - if it is not 'as expected' I'll report it. 2. Playing the Small Gods file with gst-launch behaves normally - no excessive CPU load. 3. Disabling Cross-Fading in Rhythmbox doesn't improve the situation - CPU load as high as ever. 4. Totem-gstreamer has no problems with CPU load with this file.
Now for something strange. After your cross-fading suggestion I decided to go through the options and disable/enable things to see if there was a difference whilst the file is playing. I started in plug-ins by (stupidly) disabling them those that were enabled (only a handful were) and as soon as I did the CPU load dropped to the expected minimum. I tried enabling them one-at-a-time but now I don't seem to be able to recreate the issue. This is/was a default install of Rhythmbox with regard to plug-ins, I don't use it that much and hadn't had occasion to look at the options there. I do notice that the MTP plug-in causes the high CPU load whilst Rhythmbox is starting but that is all, and I'm reasonably sure it wasn't enabled. I've not had any MTP devices connected when the CPU load was high. So it looks like it was some kind of strange plug-in interaction which has now 'gone away'. I'll report back in a couple of days to confirm it seems fully resolved. -- CPU 60% and High Temperatures playing large MP3s https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/141390 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
