[MPlayer-users] Rather high CPU usage on arm (Raspberry Pi) when streaming.

[Andy Furniss]

David Woodfall wrote:
> I'm finding CPU usage is between 20-40% on my Pi board when streaming
> radio URLs:
>
> mplayer -playlist  http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r3.asx
>
> is a good example. Local files tend to be ~= the 10% mark.
>
> I was wondering if there were some options for lowering this? I've
> tried with -nocache.

You could see if the 320kbit aac behaves better

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r3_aaclca.pls