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Offline hiro

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Re: looking for a gui audio player
« Reply #15 on: April 02, 2013, 06:23:41 AM »
I also often use mpg123 and ogg123, or even ossplay (for raw wave streams that get transfered to other pcs via nc)

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Re: looking for a gui audio player
« Reply #16 on: April 02, 2013, 06:50:31 AM »
I also often use mpg123

I've stopped using mpg123 - and same with vlc, for that matter - ever since I found their cpu usage to be a multiple in comparison to mplayer and mp3blaster for playing mp3's.
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Re: looking for a gui audio player
« Reply #17 on: April 02, 2013, 11:27:14 AM »
10024  9795 tc       S    27284  0.6   1  0.9 mplayer eladamri-we_could_kill_everyone.mp3
10535 10223 tc       S     2240  0.0   0  0.7 mpg123 eladamri-we_could_kill_everyone.mp3

stays mostle the same here

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Re: looking for a gui audio player
« Reply #18 on: April 02, 2013, 03:21:15 PM »
Hmm, this made me look deeper into it again, and I found some clues which I never had before:

I have the habit to run apps which access sound device under aoss wrapper to prevent them from being blocked by another app accessing sound device.

Running under aoss wrapper:

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32228 31277 tc       R     3928  0.7   0 29.2 mpg123 /mnt/sda1/sound/rumble.mp3
32191 20893 tc       S    21644  4.1   0  7.5 mplayer /mnt/sda1/sound/rumble.mp3

Running each one exclusively without aoss wrapper indeed there seems to be no significant difference:

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2207 31277 tc       R     2400  0.4   0  5.2 mpg123 /mnt/sda1/sda3/sound/rumble.mp3
 2310 20893 tc       S    20404  3.9   0  4.9 mplayer /mnt/sda1/sda3/sound/rumble.mp3

The plot thickens when running mpg123 with "-o alsa":

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2542 31277 tc       R     3856  0.7   0 13.7 mpg123 -o alsa /mnt/sda1/sda3/sound/rumble.mp3
using much more cpu than without "-o alsa", but much less than under aoss wrapper.

When running mpg123 with "-o oss" then it stays in same range as without any parameter:

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4563 31277 tc       R     2400  0.4   0  5.2 mpg123 -o oss /mnt/sda1/sda3/sound/rumble.mp3
I am a bit puzzled now, does that mean that without parameter mpg123 would use alsa module oss emulation and use much less cpu than with native alsa??

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Re: looking for a gui audio player
« Reply #19 on: April 02, 2013, 03:43:09 PM »
What about " deadbeef "?   or " GNOMEMPlayer " ?

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Re: looking for a gui audio player
« Reply #20 on: April 02, 2013, 04:41:23 PM »
@tinypoodle: i don't know anything about alsa emulation, everything is purely OSS here and that works just right. Perhaps there's a bug in one of the libraries you're using.

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Re: looking for a gui audio player
« Reply #21 on: April 02, 2013, 05:16:30 PM »
FWIW, the reason why vlc is more cpu intensive is because it performs (or can perform) post-sound-file processing. Yes, that is not the correct term but explains that you may have a sound file (or video) and if it needs an enhancement. vlc can do it.


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Re: looking for a gui audio player
« Reply #22 on: April 03, 2013, 01:34:11 AM »
@aus9

mplayer has quite an array of audio and video filters, too.
The only barriers that can stop you are the ones you create yourself.

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Re: looking for a gui audio player
« Reply #23 on: April 03, 2013, 02:03:11 AM »
I do not speak that emm  that player name.

(a rip off from Harry Potter movies)  Its a sound joke.

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Re: looking for a gui audio player
« Reply #24 on: April 03, 2013, 06:49:30 AM »
I will try gnome-mplayer .

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Re: looking for a gui audio player
« Reply #25 on: April 03, 2013, 02:41:06 PM »
Today in freshmeat: http://freecode.com/projects/psymp3
But gnome-mplayer is a good choice

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Re: looking for a gui audio player
« Reply #26 on: April 03, 2013, 05:03:15 PM »
Hi vinnie
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Today in freshmeat: http://freecode.com/projects/psymp3
I found this statement in the release notes somewhat amusing:
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It's now written in C++ and contains many bugs.

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Re: looking for a gui audio player
« Reply #27 on: April 04, 2013, 01:18:39 AM »
yep, i think it is first release, but due to the coincidence I wanted to report it

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Re: looking for a gui audio player
« Reply #28 on: April 05, 2013, 09:16:10 AM »
Gnome-player is okay except
it does not play the video full screen maintaining aspect ratio on startup (remember window location & size , resize window when new video is loaded does not help) though i have in ~/.mplayer/config .
fs=yes
volume=5
zoom=yes
osdlevel=3
sub-fuzziness=2
Also -fs -zoom alongwith pointing to mplayer binary does not have any affect.

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Re: looking for a gui audio player
« Reply #29 on: April 05, 2013, 10:18:32 AM »
FWIW, options like "-fs" or "-zoom" behave video output driver specific (related to implementation of scaling).
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