D1eter wrote: 
> After further tests I'm not (yet) happy with my build of SqueezePlay:
> 
> • even when idle jive_alsa uses 6% CPU time while pulseaudio uses
> another 12%
> • jive_alsa is very easy to crash. Switching between a standard 16/44.1
> mp3 stream and a 24/96 flac file is almost guaranteed to crash it
> 
> The only output I managed to get so far when it crashes was: > 
Code:
--------------------
  >   > malloc(): memory corruption (fast)
--------------------
> > 
> 
> Is SqueezePlay known to be so unstable or is there something wrong
> with my build?

I haven't found SqueezePlay to be unstable, but I have seen the memory
corruption crash on occasion, but never found a way to reproduce it
consistantly so I could track it down.

Squeezeplay defaults to 16 bit sample size regardless of the source
material.  Try setting these environment variables in squeezeplay.sh.

export USEALSASAMPLESIZE=0
export USEALSABUFFERTIME=100000
export USEALSAPERIODCOUNT=4

My experience has been that pulseaudio is very cpu intensive as compared
to a strictly ALSA audio chain. That's the cost of the additional
flexibility I guess.  Try the 'i386 pulseaudio build'
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/lmsclients/files/squeezeplay/linux/squeezeplay-pulse-7.8.0-1188-i386.tgz/download).
It has no jive_alsa process.

I still haven't had a chance to investigate the images that don't
display yet.  But just try it to see if there's any stability and cpu
usage differences.

There is also the Jivelite or the Material Skin + Squeezelite option you
could try.



Ralphy

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