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author | Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> | 2013-08-25 23:25:20 +0000 |
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committer | Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> | 2013-08-25 23:29:03 +0000 |
commit | ef44f1c957a1bae1f22122276535e384506f5279 (patch) | |
tree | e38c84df6960bcbf30aac8b69dc3804e527d104e /Documentation/dtas-console.txt | |
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Fancy displays waste power and can potentially harm audio quality, it's true!
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diff --git a/Documentation/dtas-console.txt b/Documentation/dtas-console.txt index 769844f..ac1bca2 100644 --- a/Documentation/dtas-console.txt +++ b/Documentation/dtas-console.txt @@ -39,6 +39,18 @@ Key bindings are inspired partially by mplayer(1) DTAS_PLAYER_SOCK - the path to the dtas-player control socket. This defaults to ~/.dtas/player.sock +# CAVEATS + +Increasing timer resolution increases the number of CPU wakeups and +power consumption. This defeats the efforts of dtas-player +configurations which use large buffers (especially in the sink) to +reduce wakeups and power consumption. + +In rare cases (or poorly-configured systems), increased wakeups from +dtas-console will also increase contention with the sound card, +negatively affecting audio quality even if CPU utilization is not +a problem. + # SEE ALSO dtas-player(1), dtas-player_protocol(7), dtas-ctl(1), dtas-sinkedit(1), |