Lennart Poettering wrote:
If PA eats a lot of CPU this can have many reasons, most of them
have
to do with the latency settings requested by the applications or that
have been configured due to frequent underruns. However the actual
/me notes the blame-shifting...
mixing is certainly the smallest part of it. Plese don't forget
that
mixing is not exactly the most complex operation on earth.
Please don't forget that hardware mixing... is more than just mixing.
Modern audio hardware can offload sample rate conversion, attenuation,
3D processing, and other goodies.
Jeff