On 10/24/2010 08:28 PM, JD wrote: > On 10/19/2010 01:35 AM, Hiisi wrote: >> 2010/10/19 JD<jd1008@xxxxxxxxx>: >>> I played one video on youtube, then >>> killed the youtube browser tab. >> <--SNIP-->... I have to always >>> kill pulseaudio so I can get some response back. >>> >> Actually not answering your question, but just wanted to confirm this >> problem on my system (2.6.32.21-168.fc12.i686). I often have to do the >> same! >> In my opinion 'flash' is an ugly thing. And, to be honest, I'm the one >> among those whom to blame for its wide usage. I was working nearly for >> 5 years as a part-time teacher at school, teaching schoolboys to use >> flash in web-projects. Now I do not know how to atone for my sins :-) >> Looking forward for html5 video support in FireFox. Hope it became >> video-standard some day... > No matter what we think of flash, pulseaudio is not a product > of the flash plugin. It is a free and opensource linux product. > I just created output of strace of the pulseaudio process > and posted it at > http://pastebin.com/VbgCXwc3 > It shows clearly that it is in a tight loop polling and finding > nothing to process. As I had stated earlier, there is no youtube > video playing at all. It seems once you play any browser based > flash video, pulseaudio will continue to run even after you kill the > tab where it was playing, and chew up 40% of cpu (at least, this > is on my laptop with the old athlon64 3700+ unicore cpu). > I do not know how much it consumes on much faster cpu's. > > Are there audio engineers on this list? > Is this the way to handle an audio stream by an audio daemon? I would like to add that this behavior is only evident when playing a flash video via the browser. But if I play a video via ffplayer, then after the end of the video, pulseaudio goes back to consuming almost 0% of cpu. So, is it possible that the flash plugin is not closing the audio file descriptor, so pulseaudio keeps polling and finding nothing? -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines