Sound with gstreamer-apps is unbearable

[Antonio M]

2009/1/30 Hugh Caley <hughc at aldon.com>:
> 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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I assume that developers have all elements to solve the problem with
sound (Hugh, I have never tested OSS before, but I confirm your
experience also in Rawhide).
This bug has been living for too long.....at the very beginning I
thought that was my hardware's fault, then many others joined me!! but
no final solution until now



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Antonio Montagnani
Skype : antoniomontag