[Speex-dev] High CPU usage

[Tanmay Ambre]

Mark Schilling <mark_schilling <at> gmx.de> writes:

> 
> Hi Jozsef,
> 
> this approach sounds interesting.
> Do have you have some source code available ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mark
> 
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On Behalf Of Jozsef Vass
> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 11:43 PM
> To: mark_schilling <at> gmx.de
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> Subject: Re: [Speex-dev] High CPU usage
> 
> I have run into the same issue. Before sending a frame to encoder, I calculate 
the energy. If it is less than a
> small threshold, I simply replace this frame with "silence frame," which is 
320 random samples of values
> smaller than 3 (16 kHz).
> 
> BTW, I have only experience this problem with certain USB headsets that 
provide you all 0 samples when muted.
> 
> Jozsef
> 
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Hi,

I am having a similar problem. Definitely when some head phones are muted I get

high CPU usage. Also it seems on some older machines using Pentium 4 the CPU 
usage is very high. 

Does compiling speex API with DISABLE_FLOAT_API and DISABLE_VBR solve the 
problem?

Thanks 
Tanmay