Amarok and Pulseaudio

[Myriam Schweingruber]

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 1:38 PM, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/01/2012 06:12 AM, JD wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 11/01/2012 08:55 AM, Sascha Manns wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello JD,
>>>
>>> JD wrote at Donnerstag, 1. November 2012, 04:12:21:
>>>>
>>>> On 11/01/2012 01:28 AM, � wrote:
>>>> OK, so I just installed phonon-backend-vlc.
>>>> How do I tell amarok to use it instead of
>>>> gstreamer?
>>>> Do I have to recompile amarok and change the
>>>> configuration options,or what?
>>>
>>> AFAIK Amarok uses the global KDE Settings. You can find them in
>>> Systemsettings/Hardware/Multimedia then klick on Phonon/Backend. After
>>> installaton of backend-vlc you should can choose them.
>>
>> Mega Thanx!!
>> That worked!!
>
> But..... Pulseaudio is now consuming 29% of cpu -
> compared to 90% before phonon-backend-vlc
> but still wondering why so much? Does pulseaudio
> do any encoding or decoding? If not, why does it
> consume so much cpu?

Again: you are asking the wrong people, please ask this in the
kde-multimedia mailing list where the Phonon developers are.

Regards, Myriam.
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