[MPlayer-users] esd consumes 20-50% of my cpu cycles. help!

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 09:58:51AM -0800, dave giffin wrote:
> 
> I'm using Mplayer1.0pre3 with the enlightenment sound
> daemon(esd) so that I can run multiple copies of
> mplayer and have the audio mixed together.
> 
> I was using esd 0.2.28, which for some movies was
> using 10%-15% of my cpu (athlon xp), more than what

Disable esd. It's known to suck. Speed and A/V sync will ALWAYS be
better with direct access to sound, the way it was meant to be.

Rich