Sound issues

[Antonio M]

2008/10/16 Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com>:
> 2008/10/16 Christopher Stover <quantumburnz at hotmail.com>:
>>
>> I'm having some really strange sound issues.  I use Rhythmbox to listen to mp3s and radio stations.  After a while, maybe 20-30 min, the music will just stop.  I'll try to play another song or another radio station and I'll hear a second or so of music, then a pause then a split second and nothing else.  During this time, the elapsed time for the song stays at 0:00.  I've figured out that if I type pulseaudio -k I get the following:
>>
>> [Chris at localhost ~]$ pulseaudio -k
>> I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
>> I: caps.c: Dropping root priviliges.
>> I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
>> N: main.c: Called SUID root and real-time/high-priority scheduling was requested in the configuration. However, we lack the necessary priviliges:
>> N: main.c: We are not in group 'pulse-rt' and PolicyKit refuse to grant us priviliges. Dropping SUID again.
>> N: main.c: For enabling real-time scheduling please acquire the appropriate PolicyKit priviliges, or become a member of 'pulse-rt', or increase the RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits for this user.
>> W: main.c: High-priority scheduling enabled in configuration but not allowed by policy.
>>
>> I then start VLC, play an mp3 and I get all the distorted sound that people have been talking about but it plays.  I got this on the command line from VLC which looks pulseaudio related:
>>
>> I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
>> I: caps.c: Dropping root priviliges.
>> I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
>>
>> Finally, if I close VLC and open Rhythmbox, I can miraculously listen to the radio and mp3s!
>>
>> Chris
>>
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>
> I have exactly same issues....and tnx for the post that clarifies to
> me what happens.
> The problem is: what is the component to be filed against in
> bugzilla??? pulseaudio??
> Furthermore I find that some problem can arise from the fact that
> pulseaudio is in rawhide, while most of tools for multimedia (i.e. mp3
> codecs) are out of those boundaries....
> For your information latest kernel (.13) makes a better job about multimedia.
>
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> Antonio Montagnani
> Skype : antoniomontag
>

really funny situation: every time I install a kernel I have to check
whether it is doing fine.
For example I installed 17 from koij and it is no good, I am
experiencing that Rhythmbox is suffering from buffer empty (once again
sound too fast??) when playing a radio stream.
16 was doing fine and I will revert to it.


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Antonio Montagnani
Sometimes silence is more meaningful than sound....
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