[vorbis] Why is ogg123 so much slower than XMMS?

[Joel]

Rainy <r6144 at 263.net> wrote:

> On a PII233 system running linux with ogg-vorbis-RC2,
> when playing a 2-min 48kbps ogg file, ogg123 takes much more CPU time
> than XMMS (several seconds with ogg123 vs. less than one second
> for all XMMS threads added up).  Since the pids are the same, I
> am sure that XMMS did not create new threads when playing one song.
> 
> I think this has to do with soundcard interaction.

I belive cpu-time isn't always reported correctly for xmms and its treads, (at least when using top to report). I didn't notice any change in %-of cpu-time between xmms(stopped) or xmms(playing). Is this true in your case too?

How, or why it happens, I've no clue.

-Joel

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