Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Unwanted initial delay

[Gisli Ottarsson <gisli ottarsson mscsoftware com>]

On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 12:42, Benjamin Otte wrote:
> Hehe, if you do something non-normal, it's always a good idea to tell
> this. :)

Touche!


> Yes, the current release of gst-plugins reads a whole ogg file before
> starting playback. This is optimized away in current cvs and should be
> quite a bit faster.

Good to know and good to know that relief is on the way.

> So if that's really the problem, it shouldn't happen with mp3s, right?

Bingo!  I had an .mp3 and an .ogg version of the same song.  The .mp3
plays instantly but I must wait 10s for the .ogg.

Thanks

   Gisli

PS:  Re-adding the library took ages.  I had waited about 3 hours
before giving up and going to bed.  I don't know how long it ultimately
took.  The library is about 4000 files (remember the low-speed
network).  I've did this several times with pre-0.8 Rhythmbox versions
and it never seemed to take more than 30 minutes max.  This is not one
of those things one does frequently and it doesn't matter much, but I
wonder if there is a bad first-impression which could be avoided.




> Benjamin
> 
> 
> On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Gisli Ottarsson wrote:
> 
> >
> > Long-shot or not, the library reload was easily tested and I think I
> > learned something in the process.  My library lives on a server in my
> > house but I do my listening on a laptop  connected via a low-speed
> > wireless network. Re-loading the library from the server take a *long*
> > time, so I figured I would load only a handful of files I have local to
> > the laptop.  I found that when playing these files I didn't experience
> > the delay.
> >
> > Is it possible that gstreamer-0.8 processes the entire .ogg file before
> > starting to play?  If so, that would explain it because sucking a 5Mb
> > file over the wireless network might take the few seconds I talked
> > about before.  This  definitely was *not* happening in pre 0.8 versions
> > of Rhythmbox.  Might there be a gstreamer setting to stream the file
> > rather than grabbing the whole thing first.
> >
> > I loaded the library and the delay is still there.
> >
> >  Gisli
> >
> > PS: When I proceeded to load the server library I ran into an annoying
> > quirk of the File dialog box which handles the Import Folder
> > operation.   My library is in an automounted directory and but how the
> > heck do I trigger the mount from the File dbox when all I can do is
> > click stuff?  I had to start a terminal and list the directory to mount
> > it before it showed up in the File dbox.
> >
> > Could I have typed something into the Add Location panel?  file://...
> > or something?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 21:57, Colin Walters wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 16:48 -0500, Tyler Longren wrote:
> > > > I doubt you're doing anything wrong.  It's probably a bug.  I had this
> > > > problem a while back but has since been fixed on my system.  I waited
> > > > for a few new releases of Rhythmbox to come out and then updated and
> > > > it was all fixed.
> > >
> > > Do you happen to remember which version fixed it?
> > >
> > > > Have you tried clearing your library and adding the songs to it again?
> > >
> > > That almost certainly won't change anything related to playback.  The
> > > only thing I can think of at all related is the ReplayGain bits.
> > >
> > >
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