[Slackbuilds-users] deadbeef music player - unmaintained?

[Niels Horn]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis <grbzks at xsmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 01 of July 2010 00:43:36 David Woodfall wrote:
>> On (15:33 30/06/10), V'yacheslav Stetskevych <slava18 at gmail.com> put forth
> the proposition:
>> >Hi people,
>> >
>> >I've written mail to AlexGAV some 2 or 3 weeks ago about the state of
>> >the deadbeef slackbuild which is at 0.3.3 when the program is at 0.4.1
>> >already. Got no response. Does anyone want to take it? If not, I can
>> >submit an update myself. It's trivial, just bump the version and
>> >change the source to .tar.bz2 from .tar.gz.
>>
>> I've also emailed him about this. If I get no reply I will submit an
>> update.
>
> Speaking of deadbeef, does anyone else have unusually high CPU usage with it
> specifically on low end machines?
> For example i get very high usage of ~25% of both cores on my netbook.
> Pretty much the same happens with Qmmp.
>
> --
> Greg
>

Well, I haven't tried it yet on a low-end machine, but here it works
fine playing music, steady at 3-4% cpu on a "Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo
CPU     E8400  @ 3.00GHz GenuineIntel"

Niels