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With GStreamer-engine Im getting 100% CPU usage while playing. How can I fix it?

April 26, 2017CPU playing usage

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With GStreamer-engine Im getting 100% CPU usage while playing. How can I fix it?

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When using GStreamer-engine with alsasink, Amarok requires the device to provide a mixer. Mixing allows multiple applications to access the device at the same time, and output sound simultaneously. This can either be achieved by using a soundcard with hardware-mixing (e.g. SBLive), or by using the “dmix” plugin for alsa, which provides software-mixing. See Setting up Dmix for ALSA. After installation you need to specify “dmix” as the sound device in the engine settings dialog.