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

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Martin,

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 12:28, Martin Steigerwald <Martin at lichtvoll.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Myriam,
>
> Am Samstag 29 Mai 2010 schrieb 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 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
>
> Well you reassigned above bug to phonon xine already, but upto now no
> Phonon developer gave any suggestions on how to proceed. I do not think it
> makes much sense to open another bug report for the same issue.
>
> I thought some other Amarok user might have a similar problem thus I
> thought it might help asking here.
>
> I also thought about testing with another media player which uses Phonon.
> Maybe its not just a Phonon Xine backend problem but a problem that is
> triggered by how Amarok is using it. But I do not know which Phonon based
> player I could use instead for trying.

You can test with Dragonplayer, it also uses Phonon.


Regards, Myriam
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