[maemo-developers] OSSO Media Server and system pauses

[From: Tony Maro]

I may have found the issue - in the Kagu code.  Investigating further
still.  I noticed that it was creating a new thread and RPC every time you
start a new song, and things seem to work just fine without doing that...


On 8/29/07, Tony Maro <tonymaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Okay, so I ripped out gstreamer and put in OSSO Media Server code.
>
> The thing I've noticed is that there's a distinct pause of about 1 second
> in my code when you start a new song playing.  I didn't have this issue with
> gstreamer (though the other issues with gstreamer far outweigh the new
> problem.)
>
> Without using threads it was nearly a 2.5 second pause, so using a thread
> helped.  For a media player app this wouldn't be a problem, but for a game,
> it's murder.  I've run cProfile and it says there's only a .02 second delay
> in the send_cmd function, but there's a definite pause in user input of
> about one second.
>
> I'm going through all this pain because the pygame sound routines can't
> use the Maemo sound hardware...
>
>
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