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

[Hongl Lai]

On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 14:50, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 08:53:36AM -0000, Alen Ladavac wrote:
> > People, are you trying to profile a program by using system monitoring
> > tools? Again? It was discussed for Win32 last time on this ml (iirc), but I
> > don't see why would it be much more accurate under other OSs. I mean, task
> > schedulers are not ment to be used for profiling, they only give approximate
> > info. The general rule of the thumb should be: don't use a tool for
> > something it is not designed for.
> 
> Here's a quick thought on testing xmms speed: disk writer plugin ...
> problem is, disk writing speed will slow it down. So how can one write
> to /dev/null? It wants a directory, so that it can create a file inside
> it, maybe a ramdisk using tmpfs or something? But who's got that amount
> of RAM... we need a nullfs. <g>
> 

For example, if you have foobar.ogg, then create a symlink called
"foobar.wav" to /dev/null in your home directory.
Then use the disk writer to write to your home directory.
I don't know wether this will work, I've never tried it.

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