Hello, I apologize if this has been answered. couldn't find it when searching.
With the Extra Decoders Support package, I can play my .ogg audio files, however the battery drain is considerable. when displaying processes with the top command, i see the cpu gets bogged down to 50%. The n900 gets warm and drains fast.

I've installed mplayer and kmplayer, and when playing music on kmplayer using mplayer as the selected player, cpu utilization is around 10%.

Is there a solution for the battery drain with the regular media player? can I force it to use mplayer and if so how? are there any differences in sound quality between mplayer and the regular osso codecs?

Thanks for any input.