From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yau Chan Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:31:31 +0000 Subject: playing MP3 vs CPU usage Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org Hi. I'm a beginner in Linux. I just set up my new sound card and it plays very good when I'm plaything something alone. But when I'm playing a song in a terminal, and tryig to do something else. like switching to another terminal on the Desktop, the song will stall for a very very short bit. i tried to keep track of the CPU usage. when it's playing the song alone, it's using about 20%. But whenever i try to do something else, it just jump to full for a short instance. I wonder if there is any way that I can modify it so that it will be more smooth when i'm playing song and do other things. Thanks. I'm using a very slow computer, which is a Pentium 133. But I don't have such problem in windows95 and windows NT. So, I guess linux should do better. Thank you very much. Ben. (ychan@cs.wisc.edu)