Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Rhythmbox 0.7.0 playback problem

[Matthias Saou <thias spam spam spam spam spam spam spam egg and spam freshrpms net>]

Colin Walters wrote :

> > I've just installed gstreamer 0.7.4 and rhythmbox 0.7.0 and after
> > getting ALSA to finally work (*), I'm still having a playback problem.
> > What happens is that 2 or 3 seconds before the end of the song
> > currently being played, there is no more sound, although the progress
> > bar still moves all the way to the end, and once it is reached, the
> > playback stops instead of moving to the next song.
> 
> And it uses 100% CPU too, right?  Yeah, I have the same problem.  I
> recently switched to alsasink instead of osssink, since the latter gave
> really crappy audio output on Linux 2.6 (but works fine on 2.4).
> 
> It's definitely annoying, and it's on my personal list of things to try
> to fix...

Yup, that's it, annoying indeed and quite problematic as ALSA is more and
more going to be the preferred output with the adoption of the 2.6 kernel,
but stays quite broken in gstreamer with no one really interested in fixing
it from what I've understood :-(

Matthias

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