You skipped a paragraph from my report:

> It's just easy to tell if an app/ALSA uses too much CPU if you just play some audio files
> and you don't have anything else that might need the extra CPU power,
> like rendering the video stream or render the graphics. I can fix the
> high CPU usage in VLC if I switch the audio sub-device from the Default
> to a specific one (in my case: Analog Front Speakers).

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