[maemo-developers] Python and GStreamer

[From: Austin Che]

Jesse Guardiani <jesse at guardiani.us> wrote:

> Austin Che wrote:
>>     Ok thanks. So I went ahead and ported mpd and mpg321 to maemo. In
>>     case anyone else wants these packages as I couldn't find them
>>     already out there: http://austin.mit.edu/maemo
>>         mpd uses about 10% of the cpu and mpg321 uses about 20% of
>> the CPU
>>     even though they should be both using libmad. mpg321 seems to skip
>>     a bit just switching apps but renicing it a bit appeared to get
>>     rid of the skipping. I'm not sure why mpd seemed to do better in
>>     general. Also, for some reason, using alsa output with mpd didn't
>>     work (apparently segfaults) while libao output worked fine.
>
> Is that on the n800 or 770? My experience has been that mplayer with
> ffmp3 typically gets about 16% CPU during playback on an n800 while
> playing back a very high quality VBR mp3.

    n800