How to reduce parole's loading of the system?

[Maximilien Noal]

On 03/26/2012 11:22 PM, Chris Green wrote:
> I'm running parole to listen to BBC .asx audio streams and it's not
> managing at all well.  It's buffering all the time and losing around
> half of the audio stream which makes it unusable.
>
> Is there any way to reduce the amount of processor time it needs?  It
> seems (according to top) to be using 30% or more of the processor though
> not much memory.
>
> This is on an atom based netbook, so it's not a super powerful system
> but I'd expect it to be able to stream audio.
>
Hello,

Why not try audacious instead (it can stream audio, but I don't know if 
it likes .asx streams), or banshee, mplayer, or vlc... ?

(audacious seems to use less memory at startup compared to Parole BTW. 
Maybe it will use less CPU cycles too.)

Just my 2 cents.