xfmedia 0.3.0 released

[Shadow Rage]

ditch libxine.

xine has always been a resource hog.

use mplayer as a backend or something.


On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 10:40:06 -0800, groundhog3000
<groundhog3000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Here is the issue,
> 
> 
> 
> >
> >the gui part:
> >olivleh1 at kartoffel olivleh1> ps auxww | grep mpla
> >olivleh1 36123 18.3  1.8 20928 11648  p1  S+    4:55PM   0:00.97 gmplayer
> >(mplayer)
> >
> >
> >the video part:
> >olivleh1 36128  1.8  3.1 29224 20212  p1  S+    4:55PM   0:00.17 gmplayer
> >(mplayer)
> >
> >but i'm playing an mpg with xfmedia.
> >Playing an mp3 to compare teapots with teapots:
> >
> >audio part:
> >olivleh1 36136  0.0  2.3 29256 15084  p1  S+    4:57PM   0:00.08 gmplayer
> >(mplayer)
> >
> >Makes 26 MB (gui+audio)
> >
> >And I don't see how the "fully capable" feature should result in a bigger
> >memory usage. If I don't play an divx or whatever, just an mp3, then
> >nothing has to be in my memory except mp3+gui.
> >
> >
> Beep-Media-Player uses almost no system resources at all.
> Mplayer uses a bit more, but not much.
> It _appears_ as if xfmedia loads all the xine libs before they are needed,
> which leads to a large memory footprint.  Could be a modularization
> problem ...
> but since I haven't seen the code, I don't know.
> 
> Just a thought,
> Gabe
> 
> 
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