Rhythmbox started stuttering today...

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VValdo · Post by **VValdo** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 9:36 am

I emerged a couple of updated gst-plugins that were updated today. Everything works fine except for rhythmbox, which has "stuttering" type sound. The other sound apps I've tried (BMP, mplayer, ut2004) seem unaffected. Reemerging rhythmbox did nothing.

Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this, and whether it's related to the gst stuff that was updated..

W

mazirian · Post by **mazirian** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 3:45 pm

That's almost certainly a gstreamer issue. The issue you describe and other weird things with rhythmbox have happened to me off and on over the past year or so, always as the gstreamer versions change. I usually end up compiling rhythmbox with the xine backend until things clear up.

sepp · Post by **sepp** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 5:09 pm

VValdo wrote:I emerged a couple of updated gst-plugins that were updated today. Everything works fine except for rhythmbox, which has "stuttering" type sound. The other sound apps I've tried (BMP, mplayer, ut2004) seem unaffected. Reemerging rhythmbox did nothing.

Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this, and whether it's related to the gst stuff that was updated..

W

I experience the exact same thing here

codergeek42 · Post by **codergeek42** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:06 am

Me too.

FrogLamb · Post by **FrogLamb** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:01 am

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# echo "=media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.9*" >> /etc/portage/package.mask
# emerge -1 --nodeps =media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.8

codergeek42 · Post by **codergeek42** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:42 am

FrogLamb wrote:

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# echo "=media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.9*" >> /etc/portage/package.mask
# emerge -1 --nodeps =media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.8

Downgrading gst-plugins-alsa worked wonderfully for me. Thanks, FrogLamb.

stalynx · Post by **stalynx** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 7:52 am

Yeah I noticed the same thing with Muine and Totem. Fscking Gstreamer!

ultraViolet · Post by **ultraViolet** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:15 am

I got the same problem, and an emerge streamer -p says me that there was two version installed. I desinstalled the old one and all is fine in rhythmbox now

codergeek42 · Post by **codergeek42** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 7:24 am

Reviving an aged thread...

gstreamer-plugins-alsa 0.8.10 seems to fix this for me, for what it's worth.

Edit: Nope. I was mistaken.

stalynx · Post by **stalynx** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 7:22 am

Yeah the problem remains in gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.10. However FLAC files play fine, seems only mp3s are effected.

*sigh*

codergeek42 · Post by **codergeek42** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:18 pm

stalynx wrote:Yeah the problem remains in gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.10. However FLAC files play fine, seems only mp3s are effected.

*sigh*

Ogg Vorbis too.

BeetleJuice · Post by **BeetleJuice** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:35 pm

Downgrading to gstreamer-0.8.8 and plugins solved that problem for me. (rhythmbox stuttering)
Why o' why do we need this woes every gstreamer-update ... sigh

HydroSan · Post by **HydroSan** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 4:19 pm

Confirmed fix for me. Although... this seems to only be an issue on x86, since my AMD64 box doesn't have this problem.

Actually, on further thought, my x86 box with my SB Live! card doesn't have this issue either. Only my laptop with the ESS Maestro3.

Could this be a specific chipset issue?

codergeek42 · Post by **codergeek42** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 4:33 pm

I've since switched to using the ESounD output sink for gstreamer and things seem to work okay (I was using it for Gnome's sound effects anyway...). For this you'll need to install gst-plugins-esd and enable the sound server startup in your desktop sound preferences (or add the 'esound' script to your default runlevel).

lamekain · Post by **lamekain** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 9:02 pm

Still no other possibility but downgrading? Posted a comment here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314689

btw, according to this thread asound.conf is not needed as of alsa-1.09b (just "nice to know"-stuff

)

/carlito · Post by **/carlito** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 9:28 pm

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# echo "media-sound/quodlibet ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords && emerge quodlibet

lamekain · Post by **lamekain** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:41 am

/carlito wrote:

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# echo "media-sound/quodlibet ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords && emerge quodlibet

Thanks carlito. Finally Rhythmbox has some real competition

/carlito · Post by **/carlito** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 6:47 pm

I don't think that rhythmbox can compete with quod libet. Rhythmbox dissapointed me in so many ways... The only thing i'm missing in quod libet are my internet radio stations

lamekain · Post by **lamekain** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:05 pm

Well rhythmbox has those stations so that's already one for rb

. But seriously I've been using the CVS-version of rb for ages, 'cos the releases were lagging behind so much.

QL does seem promising and has a lot of features. There are pros and cons for both. I wouldn't say that rb is a lot worser.

jdoe · Post by **jdoe** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:30 am

lamekain wrote:Still no other possibility but downgrading? Posted a comment here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314689

btw, according to this thread asound.conf is not needed as of alsa-1.09b (just "nice to know"-stuff )

don't know if can work for you, but worked well for me (with terratec EWX 24/96, ICE1712 [Envy] chip)
all gstreamer apps were stuttering

increasing the buffer size and period did the job

i use gnome, in the menu Desktop -> Preferences -> Multimedia System Selector ,
Default Sink
Output : Custom
Pipeline: changed from "alsasink" to "alsasink period-size=1024 buffer-size=4096 mmap=false autorecover=false"

everything runs fine

taken from here : http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ALSA_sound ... ink_in_KDE

satanskin · Post by **satanskin** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:53 pm

I have the latest gstreamer and plugins (0.8.11) and mine just started stuttering too. Tried downgrading to 8.10 but that didn't help. Neither did the buffer and period size. Anyone ever figure out what is screwing this up?

reub2000 · Post by **reub2000** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 2:34 am

satanskin wrote:I have the latest gstreamer and plugins (0.8.11) and mine just started stuttering too. Tried downgrading to 8.10 but that didn't help. Neither did the buffer and period size. Anyone ever figure out what is screwing this up?

Going back to gst-plugins-alsa 0.8.8 fixed the problem for me. Also, increasing the buffer size to 16384 does help the newer gstreamers alsaink, but doesn't fix it.

lamekain · Post by **lamekain** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:47 am

Try as root:

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mv /etc/asound.conf /etc/asound.conf.backup

and delete the one in your homedir, if you have one.

Devport · Post by **Devport** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 5:12 pm

An old thread but sadly now this happens to me, too. For a long time rhythmbox worked just fine but now it stutters. I have had some gstreamer 0.10.x stuff installed which I removed again in the meanwhile. Now rhythmbox is stuttering. It seems something triggered that old bug.

Rhythmbox started stuttering today...

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