On 8/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Austin Che</b> <<a href="mailto:list-maemo@austin.mit.edu">list-maemo@austin.mit.edu</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br> I've been wondering: what is the performance hit for not going<br> through gstreamer? So based on my understanding, going through<br> gstreamer, the mp3 is decoded on the DSP. Supposing it was decoded<br>
on the cpu and sent out through alsa, which of the following is<br> likely to be true:</blockquote><div><br><br>Well I can only say this - my experience now using osso media player
instead of gstreamer is that I can play, pause, start and stop my MP3
media stream without affecting the frame rate of my game, and if it's not affecting my frame rate, I'm unconcerned with if it happens in the DSP or not ;-)<br>
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Also, Kagu is very good on battery life when using it, so I'm not too concerned about battery suck with it.<br>
<br> But obviously I'm no expert - I've only used it for a day.<br></div><br></div>