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PostPosted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 9:36 am    Post subject: Rhythmbox started stuttering today... Reply with quote

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..

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 3:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 5:09 pm    Post subject: Re: Rhythmbox started stuttering today... Reply with quote

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
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Me too. :(
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
# echo "=media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.9*" >> /etc/portage/package.mask
# emerge -1 --nodeps =media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.8
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

FrogLamb wrote:
Code:
# 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.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 7:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah I noticed the same thing with Muine and Totem. Fscking Gstreamer!
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 7:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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. :(
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 7:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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

*sigh*
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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. :?
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 4:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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?
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 4:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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).
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 9:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 :wink: )
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 9:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

/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 8)
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 6:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well rhythmbox has those stations so that's already one for rb :wink: . 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.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 :wink: )


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_mixer_aka_dmix#Amarok.2Bgstreamer.2Balsasink_in_KDE
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 2:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 5:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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