How to reduce parole's loading of the system?

[Chris Green]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:32:34PM +0200, Maximilien Noal wrote:
> 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... ?
> 
I've tried:-
    vlc - doesn't seem to support any of the BBC live stream formats
    mplayer - very heavyweight, seems even slower than parole
    banshee - not tried, will do so

> (audacious seems to use less memory at startup compared to Parole
> BTW. Maybe it will use less CPU cycles too.)
> 
It uses none at all, it can't decode any of the BBC streams.

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Chris Green