Hi Punky,<br><br>Thanks for your reply and yes you are right<br><br> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND<br> 4644 mpd 20 0 73816 14m 6688 S 97.1 6.1 0:28.72 mpd<br><br>mpd consumes 97% of CPU, but I was using alsaequal with MPD on Voyage 0.6.5 with no problem. I have seen the CPU utilization before, it was in the range of 30-50%. I am not sure what caused this usage? <br>
<br><br>This is while playing mp3 without alsaequal<br><br> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND<br> 4697 mpd 20 0 72148 13m 6148 S 10.5 5.7 0:04.57 mpd<br> <br>and this one is for a flac without alsaequal<br>
<br> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND<br> 4697 mpd 20 0 72148 13m 6252 S 8.2 5.8 0:12.72 mpd<br> <br>Please help<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Punky Tse <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:punkytse@punknix.com">punkytse@punknix.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi Navas,<br>
<br>
Take a look to top or load avg. to see if it is CPU bound.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Punky<div class="im"><br>
<br>
<br>
On 18/2/2011 23:42, Navas Abubacker wrote:<br>
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Hi,<br>
<br>
I am trying to get the equalizer with Voyage MPD on a alix3 box. But for some reason the sound is breaking up,<br>
<br>
I can see "alsamixer -D equal" working and when I debug the mpd I am getting the output like this<br>
<br>
root@voyage:~# mpd --no-daemon --stderr -v /etc/mpd.conf<br>
config: loading file /etc/mpd.conf<br>
path: path_set_fs_charset: fs charset is: UTF-8<br>
database: reading DB<br></div>
disabling the <a href="http://last.fm" target="_blank">last.fm</a> <<a href="http://last.fm" target="_blank">http://last.fm</a>> playlist plugin because account is not configured<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
daemon: opening pid file<br>
daemon: writing pid file<br>
state_file: Loading state file /var/lib/mpd/state<br>
database: get song: En Jannal Vandha - TamilLatestMusic.blogspot.com.mp3<br>
playlist: play 0:"En Jannal Vandha - TamilLatestMusic.blogspot.com.mp3"<br>
decoder_thread: clearing mixramp tags<br>
decoder_control: mixramp_start = NULL<br>
decoder_control: mixramp_prev_end = NULL<br>
mad: detected LAME version 3.99 ("LAME3.99a")<br>
mad: LAME peak found: 0.000000<br>
mad: LAME track gain found: -10.600000<br>
mad: encoder delay is 576, encoder padding is 324<br>
decoder: audio_format=44100:24:2, seekable=true<br>
alsa: buffer: size=1881..15052 time=42653..341316<br>
alsa: period: size=940..941 time=21333..21334<br>
alsa: default period_time = buffer_time/4 = 341315/4 = 85328<br>
alsa: buffer_size=15052 period_size=940<br>
output: opened plugin=alsa name="equal" audio_format=44100:24:2<br>
alsa: Underrun on ALSA device "plug:plugequal"<br>
alsa: Underrun on ALSA device "plug:plugequal"<br>
alsa: Underrun on ALSA device "plug:plugequal"<br>
alsa: Underrun on ALSA device "plug:plugequal"<br>
alsa: Underrun on ALSA device "plug:plugequal"<br>
alsa: Underrun on ALSA device "plug:plugequal"<br>
<br>
<br>
for every alsa: Underrun on ALSA device "plug:plugequal" it is breaking up.<br>
<br>
here are my configurations<br>
<br>
root@voyage:~# dmesg | grep usb<br>
[ 5.723640] input: C-Media USB Audio Device as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0f.4/usb2/2-3/2-3:1.3/input/input1<br>
[ 5.724435] generic-usb 0003:0D8C:000C.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.00 Device [C-Media USB Audio Device ] on usb-0000:00:0f.4-3/input3<br>
[ 5.725529] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid<br>
[ 5.725617] usbhid: USB HID core driver<br>
[ 10.824108] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio<br>
<br>
<br>
root@voyage:~# lsusb<br>
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0d8c:000c C-Media Electronics, Inc. Audio Adapter<br>
<br>
<br>
root@voyage:~# nano /etc/asound.conf<br>
ctl.equal {<br>
type equal;<br>
}<br>
<br>
pcm.plugequal {<br>
type equal;<br>
slave.pcm "plug:dmix";<br>
}<br>
<br>
#pcm.equal {<br>
# Or if you want the equalizer to be your<br>
# default soundcard uncomment the following<br>
# line and comment the above line.<br>
pcm.!default {<br>
type plug;<br>
slave.pcm plugequal;<br>
}<br>
<br>
root@voyage:~# nano /etc/mpd.conf<br>
..............................<br>
audio_output {<br>
type "alsa"<br>
name "equal"<br>
device "plug:plugequal"<br>
}<br>
........................<br>
<br>
<br>
Please help<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Thanks<br>
Navas<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Thanks<br>Navas<br>