2009-01-26, 22:36
althekiller Wrote:Dropped frames is a piss poor metric, you need to watch the core utilization and ensure that it remains balanced through the entire sample.
I know but let's face it, unfortunately dropped frames *is* the most objective measure we've got right know. I play killa sample on hardy -> no dropped frames, however, it drops like mad in intrepid. It is something we can easily ask other people to check rather than "check if core utilization remains balanced" or to see if the killa sample plays smooth...
Regarding the issue, I've changed the way I'm replacing libraries. Right now I'm copying hardy binary libraries to intrepid and link xbmc in intrepid with them. So the xbmc binary compiled normally in intrepid, now links with the hardy libraries. I've managed to change all libraries ffmpeg uses and it still the same lack of performance. The only strange message when I replace the libraries is something about not being able to load libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so. That makes me thing that it can not properly replace libasound and it may be a problem with alsa :confused2:
Has anyone install the latest alsa in their intrepid box? (I'm using intrepid official) Does it performs as bad as the normal intrepid version?