Paul Davis wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 12:17 -1000, david wrote:
>> Paul Davis wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 16:41 -0500, carmen wrote:
>>>> On Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 01:59:29PM -0600, Victor Roetman wrote:
>>>>> (and I really wish there was a jack backend for gstreamer)
>>>> there is. it didnt work very well for me (worse than alsa+plug:jack, just like XINE) but you might want to give it a shot
>>> carmen, judging from the rest of your post, CPU usage was the main
>>> issue.
>>>
>>> this is actually not a consequence of the JACK sink directly, but the
>>> appalling unoptimized resampling code in gstreamer. if you connect the
>>> JACK sink up to a stream that is already at the JACK sample rate, i have
>>> found you see the expected (low) CPU utilization.
>>>
>>> the gstreamer guys know about this, but there is nobody available or
>>> with the know-how to speed it up. libsamplerate is not an option,
>>> apparently, because of the license :((
>> I've been warned by a number of Linux folk to avoid GStreamer.
>
> i think thats a mistake. gstreamer has quite a complex API and a very
> complex internal design, but it solves a number of problems that nobody
> else has bothered to solve.
Like what? I play media stuff of all kinds without GStreamer even installed.
-- David gnome@email-addr-hidden authenticity, honesty, communityReceived on Tue Feb 6 04:15:04 2007
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