[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 519355] constant hard disk usage when playing music

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           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |bilboed at gmail.com
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX




------- Comment #4 from Edward Hervey  2009-01-29 09:26 UTC -------
After a bit of investigation, with a default gstreamer setup + rhythmbox, the
pipeline only does bursts of reads every second or so.

Considering an average duration of 5mins for a track, you would still have to
wake up the hard drive every 5mins. That would be roughly the average spin-down
timeout on most distros. And spinning up/down a hdd costs a lot of energy.

These issues should be solved in levels lower than GStreamer (like... the
kernel ???).

As David warned, I'm closing this bug due to lack of maintainership.


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