Sound with gstreamer-apps is unbearable

[john wendel]

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
>>   
> 

I found that "yum remove gstreamer\*" worked great on my box. And I 
don't use pulseaudio, just configure things to connect directly to alsa. 
I never skips!

Regards,

John