Testing Joost

Bingo. After some days waiting I finally got a invitation for joost. It is not like I was drooling for one or something like that. I was only curious. Let’ s get to it. The program is quite simple and has no configuration for what I can see. Even a drunken monkey could install it and put it to work. Im talking about Mac OS X. I suppose in MSWindos is equally stupid. No client for Linux. Bad, bad program. No cookie for you.

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The program uses an OSD that resembles the VLC one. As I said, nice and not complicated.

And now comes the bad news. As I was using it I could hear the CPU fan of my macbook revving up. Guess what, the program is using 50% of CPU. Not bad.

Now Im really pissed. If I have a laptop i is precisely because it is silent and has a battery that last at least some hours. Why would I like to run something like this and burn my balls watching TV on my couch?. What I cannot understand is that a computer with 2 Gz core duo and 2 Gb of RAM pukes so miserably to run this program. I confess that I have no idea . Maybe it is the XULrunner engine, maybe it is the Intel video chip (that we all know it is crappy). Normally this laptop plays Xvid with videolan using 10% of CPU as an average, so it is not simply a problem of video output. The same happens with Youtube player. Some minutes of playing are enough to warm the CPU up.

What Im trying to say is that I do not understand why some programs use so much CPU to do things that are apparently not so demanding. Maybe Im missing something here or maybe it is simply that people do not care if some program takes over CPU to do a trivial thing.

Yeah. I know. For those of you who saw the Skype icon. THAT is one of those programs as well. I do not run it all the time, but I have observed too that completely screws ACPI sleep times.

Bottomline. I will never use joost in the laptop.