Sound with gstreamer-apps is unbearable

[Hugh Caley]

In the Gnome Sound Preferences control panel, with Music and Movices 
Sound Playback set to SiS S17012 ... (OSS) the sounds in Rhythmbox is 
entirely stable, even with the Firefox flash plugin bug nearly pegging 
my cpu.

Setting Sound Playback to Alsa or Pulse Audio brings back the sound 
problems immediately.  It makes me wonder if this is really a hardware 
driver problem ...

Hugh

Hugh Caley wrote:
> Ah, OK, I've also had this problem since F9.  I'd assumed it was 
> general pulse audio problems, glad to know it's actually specific to 
> my hardware (seriously).
>
> The information is much appreciated.
>
> Hugh
>> Welcome on the band of snd_intel8x0 guys.!!!
>> I have your hardware and same problems. Many bugs related, it seems
>> connected to incorrect time scheduling of kernel and related drivers
>> I had these problems since end of F9, switched to F10 but no real
>> improvements (i.e. if I run Rhythmbox and I listen to a radio stream I
>> note many breaks and buffer becomes empty)
>> Try pulseaudio -k then pulseaudio -vv in a terminal and you will see
>> many interesting warnings (rewinds and so on).
>> Now some improvements with alsa-lib-0.19 but I am running F11, I am
>> waiting for 29 series kernel tha unfortunately don't boot at the
>> moment on my hardware
>> Have a look to:
>>  Bug 462026 -  music file play -> sound sparks.
>> Bug 447594 -  audio going through pulseaudio causes skipping, dies
>> Bug 446192 - horrible skipping audio
>>  Bug 441087 -  Sound/music playing faster than it should on intel 
>> chipset
>>
>> IMHO this bug has been underestimated for a long time
>>
>> -- 
>> Antonio Montagnani
>> Skype : antoniomontag
>>   
>


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Hugh Caley, Linux Administrator
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