rhythmbox segfault / sound quality problems in fc4t3...

[Chris McDonough]

On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 03:16 -0400, Chris McDonough wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 02:59 -0400, Chris McDonough wrote:
> > Is there something in /proc/asound that would allow me to answer that
> > question?  Or is there some generic GNOME and/or RB setting for telling
> > it to use OSS emulation (/dev/dspX) vs. "native" ALSA devices that I can
> > look for?
> 
> Ah ha! I fired up gconf-editor and lo and behold
> system/gstreamer/0.8/default/audiosink was set to "esdsink".  I changed
> it to "osssink" and it sounds beautiful now.. great.  Thanks for the
> direction!  I suppose I should look into the benefits of running esound
> and esdsink instead.
> 
> Still segfaults pretty frequently, but that appears to be a separate
> issue which I'll try to isolate now.

FYI... at least one class of segfaults were attributable to the fact
that I was using an older version of gstreamer-plugins-mp3 (0.8.5) from
livna.

Installing
ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/rpm.livna.org/fedora/3.91/i386/RPMS.testing/gstreamer-plugins-mp3-0.8.8-0.lvn.1.3.91.i386.rpm

and rerunning gst-register (and restarting RB) prevents RB from
segfaulting when attempting to play some mp3 songs.

Very good.

- C