[Rhythmbox-devel] Poor audio quality compared to mplayer

[Nicolas MONNET <nico altiva fr>]

Hi there,

I have poor audio quality in Rhythmbox (and other gstreamer apps) compared
to mplayer when I play to my USB headphones: clicks, and skips. Sounds
like it's to play at the wrong rate and has to catch up, although the
pitch is right.

Here's the config:

	Default output pipeline: alsasink device=hw:1,0

In mplayer I use:

	$ mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=1.0 *.mp3

Which gives:

	AO: [alsa] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)

Here's my USB headset:

	Bus 005 Device 006: ID 0d8c:000c C-Media Electronics, Inc. Audio Adapter

What can I do to improve sound quality? How can I debug what's happening
within gstreamer?

Thanks for the help.