Ogg vorbis performance.

Flemming Richter Mikkelsen quatrox at gmail.com
Tue Jul 15 15:37:09 CEST 2008


On 2008-07-13, Russell Sears <sears at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Sören Apel wrote:
> > Heya,
> >
> > On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 14:27 -0700, Russell Sears wrote:
> >
> > > I've noticed that my freerunner is *almost* fast enough to play my ogg
> vorbis files; running a second app, or even gpsd causes the media player to
> skip, then to go silent.
> > >
> >
> > Yep.
> >
> >
> > > What's been done to get ogg vorbis to perform well so far?  ogg123,
> oggdec seem to be able to decode in roughly 2/3's realtime, which is similar
> to the CPU usage of openmoko-mediaplayer.
> > >
> >
> > If I remember correctly it was a problem with the sample rate/sample
> > format,
> > meaning that resampling had to take place - which eats CPU like candy.
> >
>
> Ouch.  What sample rate does the hardware provide, and does pulseaudio or
> gstreamer do the resampling?  Also, decoding to /dev/null is slow...  That
> shouldn't resample should it?
>
> I've noticed that things I've encoded more recently seem to be less likely
> to play (perhaps I changed an encoding setting at some point...), but that
> it varies from track to track...  I'll time some files, and see if I can
> find a pattern.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Rusty
>
>
> >
> >
> > > I noticed that gstreamer is using libvorbisi (tremor) since there is no
> floating point unit.  It looks like there are three ways to make it go
> faster:
> > >
> > >  - Tremolo, which is ARM specific, and claims 15-20% better performance
> > >  - _LOW_ACCURACY_ mode
> > >  - The "low-mem" branch of tremor
> > >
> > > Which of these have been tried so far?
> > >
> >
> > None, as I didn't find the time unfortunately. You're more than welcome to
> try these :)

I use my Freerunner as a mediaplayer. I installed mplayer and stored
my ogg vorbis files on the micro SD card. They are encoded with high,
but floating bitrate.

I got no problems when playing.

Also, please note that ogg vorbis is extremely flexible and you can
select any bitrate for playback without the need for reencode.



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