[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#881715: Bug#881715: alsa-utils: High CPU usage on the default device

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Andoru <aekkusu at gmail.com> [2017-11-16 02:22 +0200]:

> > I tried that on 3 different soundcards. I don't get vlc as a htop
> COMMAND. It is always /usr/bin/vlc.
> 
> I swear I'm using the native VLC from the Debian repos.
> 
> > Please tell me how you fired up vlc.
> 
> I started VLC through OpenBox's menus, and on that menu the command to
> start VLC is simply 'vlc', which probably translates to 'bash -c vlc'. If I
> open a media file from the file manager, and there's no running instance of
> VLC, I get "/usr/bin/vlc --started-from-file" as the command name under
> htop.
> 
> > The %CPU usage isn't reproducible on none of the soundcards handy for me.
> 
> Have you actually tried it on a ALC887-VD or a similar integrated chip by
> Realtek?

Tested on ALC892, CX20561, emu10k1 and ES1371/1. None of them showed
high cpu usage.

Elimar
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