Opening applications makes audio stutter

[Heiroglyph]

For example, I have mplayer playing a streaming radio station. (KNAC.com for those interested)

When I open OWB or even Scribble, CPU useage hits 100% and the audio stutters.

I would have expected the scheduler to be better at handling that case, especially on a 2GHz G5.

Is this well known or do I have something configured strangely?

Edit: This still happens if I give mplayer priority 1, higher than the default 0 that scribble and OWB have.

Thanks,
John

[Heiroglyph]

I have pointed out that problem before. But I can't remember why it hasn't been fixed.

Well, it's good that it's not just me, but it sucks that it's a known issue.

Did you report it to them directly? I just signed up for the mailing list so that I can report things I find along the way.

[Heiroglyph]

You can do that via Ambient menu as well. There is a bug tracker there.

Oh, that's fairly hidden, but good to know.

I'm going to narrow it down a bit more before submitting, mplayer has a lot of tasks running, so the problem could be related to any of them.