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PostPosted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 3:05 pm    Post subject: gstreamer: noise/crackling when playing some mkvs Reply with quote

Weird issue:
Some mkv files (ripped from DVDs I often watch) have problems with the sound. Sometimes it is only a slight crackling that lays over the sound, sometimes it is just constant noise.
To make it even worse it behaves differently when opening a file from the commandline or while the app is running: when "totem some_file.mkv" produces noise I simply need to reopen it using the file dialog and audio is fine.
But the funniest part: Using xnoise behaves the other way around:
A file that produced noise when opened with "totem some_file.mkv" will play fine with "xnoise some_file.mkv", but produce noise when opened with file dialog/from the library.
The majority of my files work just fine.

I also tried kde-base/dragon with phonon-gstreamer - same issue. phonon-sgtreamer uses gstreamer:0.10 while totem and xnoise use gstreamer:1.0.

mplayer works fine, same goes for vlc.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 8:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,

If you use the Intel HD Audio driver, then you'll probably need to add this to the kernel line in grub.conf:
snd_hda_intel.position_fix=2

That solved it for me.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 9:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Could this https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401895 be related ?
Well... I mean my analysis that it would be a resampling problem.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 1:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lost+found wrote:
snd_hda_intel.position_fix=2

Did not solve it for me :(
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Could this https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401895 be related

I don't think so, because that bug is about phonon, both vlc and gstreamer backend producing an initial crackling.
Also vlc works just fine here, it's only gstreamer that produces constant noise.
I will try an update to libav-9 in the hope it will fix this... (I know this WILL break other things)

// update: libav-9 did not change anything

// update 2: Well, at least gstreamer:1.0 is fixed, so totem works. I thought xnoise needs gstreamer:1,0, too, but it's 0.10...
So another downgrade of libav + rebuild of gst-plugins-ffmpeg, but no fix at all.
But I got a quite stupid warning, that building gst-ffmpeg against a random external version of libav is not supported an just BAD BAD BAD...
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 3:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

libav-9 did not really fix it, seems that it did work just once, the next time the video had constant noise, again.

But it seems I found the root of all of this - pulseaudio...
I uninstalled pulseaudio, took away use=pulseaudio from gst-plugins-meta:0.10 and alsa-plugins and - bamm - perfect sound in xnoise :(
Pulseaudio drove me crazy in the past, and now it again took hours of my life. As gnome depends hard on pulseaudio it seems I have to uninstall it again.
(I tested pulse-2.1 and 3.0, just in case someone tells me pulse made great steps in recent versions and "is fixed" now...)
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