[arch-general] - pulseaudio - GNOME3 in [testing]

[Sander Jansen]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Matthew Monaco <dgbaley27 at verizon.net> wrote:
> On 04/09/2011 04:46 AM, Mauro Santos wrote:
>>
>> On 09-04-2011 02:12, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
>>
>>> PA buffers better than ALSA, or is supposed to, in any case. Of
>>> course, if you're using its ALSA-emulation that's a moot point. AFAICR
>>> (haven't had this problem for ages), CPU usage from PA is basically
>>> caused by the resampling, which you can just modify to a simpler
>>> method if you don't need the higher quality of the default (speex, I
>>> believe).
>>
>> I have been using the ffmpeg resample method because of that, it uses
>> less cpu, or seems to use less cpu here, and with my setup I cannot
>> detect any loss in quality, but hey, it is a laptop and the analog audio
>> path is not stellar so ymmv.
>>
>
>
> Hmm, I tried that, didn't seem to help. In fact it's super frustrating now
> because VLC is back to use ~16% CPU again no matter what resample method I
> use and what audio output option I choose.
>
> Also, does anyone know what is restarting pulseaudio after I --kill? Is it
> gnome-shell?

I believe it uses dbus activation so it could be any pulseaudio client...