100% cpu loop with Amarok, Phonon-Xine and USB soundcard

[Myriam Schweingruber]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 22:03, Martin Steigerwald <Martin at lichtvoll.de> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Does anyone here use Amarok with USB sound card and something similar to
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193149
>
> ?
>
> In short:
>
> It happens that Amarok starts using up 100% CPU at unpredictable times.
> Once it starts doing so, only quitting it and starting it again will help.
> First I thought only after resuming from hibernation, but I had this often
> enough just out of the blue air.
>
> I already found that it doesn't happen gstreamer engine of Phonon, but
> that one has other problems. Since debugging this one as far as I could
> had been quite a time sink for me and since AFAIK Xine is still the
> recommended engine, I do not want to add another case at the moment. And
> actually its about two or three problems that made me switch from
> gstreamer backend to the xine one again.
>
> The bug report above seems stuck as requiring more information, but I am
> not sure about the best and most efficient ways to provide them. I already
> provided strace logs, information about hardware and the used debian
> software package versions.

I don't have such a configuration, but anyhow, this is not Amarok, but
Phonon related. You should file a bug against phonon and the
phonon-backend-xine in http://bugs.kde.org


Regards, Myriam.
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