rhythmbox segfault / sound quality problems in fc4t3...

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 17:14:45 -0400, Chris McDonough wrote:

> 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.

It should not be necessary to run gst-register, since the package does
it in its post-install scriptlet. For a long time.
 
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