[Alsaplayer-devel] Delay while queueing vorbis files

[Hubert Chan]

On 2005-11-13 16:15:39 -0500 Ivan Stepaniuk <ivan at risco.com.ar> wrote:
    ^^^^^^^^^^-- heh, I really should have replied earlier...

[...]

> queueing a bunch of (more than 100) mp3 files is quite fast (~1sec)
> 
> but, queueing ogg files the same way is sssslllooowww. for 14 ogg 
> files
>   $alsaplayer --clear
>   $alsaplayer -e ./*.ogg
> it takes 43 seconds, killing the cpu
>   $alsaplayer *.ogg also takes that time. same with -i text.

 From what I can tell (running alsaplayer in gdb and killing it to get 
a backtrace), this is due to the flac plugin -- I guess ogg files can 
be either vorbis or flac files, and the flac plugin takes a long time 
to decide that it's not a flac file.

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