Re: [Banshee-List] CPU usage

[Nil Gradisnik <ghaefbgtk gmail com>]

I think the main cause for gstreamer 0.10 high CPU usage was Fluendo
mp3 support I was using.

I removed it and compiled gst-plugins-ugly with libmad and now Banshee
plays mp3s with normal 3-4% CPU usage.

Just for info...


On 1/26/06, Aaron Bockover <abockover novell com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 14:06 +0100, Nil Gradisnik wrote:
> > I'd like to report banshee CPU usage when playing mp3s.
> >
> > On my laptop: Pentium M 1.73, 512Mb DDR2 ram,...
> > I get around 4-5% of CPU usage when banshee is in playback. I compiled
> > banshee from CVS, disabled daap and helix, using mono 1.1.3.2 and
> > gstreamer 0.8.11
>
> Um. That is not bad at all. Either way, the playing happens using
> GStreamer, so that's what's eating the CPU. In terms of playback, all
> Banshee does is check the pipeline state and position to update the UI.
> 4-5% is extremely reasonable. If you do not think so, perhaps another
> processor will help.
>
> > Then I tested banshee on developmental gstreamer 0.10 backend,
> > compiled and tested CPU usage again. It was around 13-15%. Now I think
> > that's alot, way too much. I know gstreamer backend is developmental,
> > but I just want to report that.
>
> This backend is experimental, but again, the work is done in GStreamer,
> so that's what's eating the CPU. 13-15 is a little heavy, but in my
> testing, it's actually better than 0.8 (around 3%). Because it is
> experimental, I cannot commit time at this moment to finishing it or to
> do any further testing.
>
> The Helix backend is not so reasonable... it eats about 25% of my CPU,
> but there's nothing that can be done about that in Banshee. The problem
> is in Helix. RealPlayer has the same problem, because it uses the Helix
> engine for playback.
>
> > Is this normal ? I really like the gstreamer 0.10 because it's much
> > more responsive and fast than 0.8.
>
> 0.10 is much better, but at the moment the transcoding and ripping
> backends have not been ported to 0.10, so 0.8 is still recommended.
>
> Cheers,
> Aaron
>
>
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