GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 309145
Enormous amounts of clicks and pops
Last modified: 2006-05-17 13:37:58 UTC
Distribution/Version: Arch/current I hear an enormous amounts of clicks and pops while playing. I can change to any other media player (XMMS, moc, mplayer..) and I hear the audio just perfect. I've set Multimedia Systems Selector in GNOME to ALSA. Changing it to OSS or ESD doesn't matter. All my music is stored on a partision with ReiserFs as filesystem. Also tried a different partisjon that use XFS as filesystem and still the same problems. Does not matter what format the file is in either (mp3, ogg, flac). I've also checked each file in sound editors to see if there's any clicks/pops there, but there's not a single one to be found. I could've inreased the buffer to see if it's set to low for my system (Intel PIII, 512MB RAM.. Allegro/Maestro3 chip integrated on the motherboard), but there's none to change. I'm also running the Linux kernel version 2.6.12.1.
Do you only see this in Rhythmbox or also in other Gstreamer based players? Perhaps you can try Totem with the Gstreamer backend or a simple Gstreamer pipeline? Example: gst-launch-0.8 gnomevfssrc location=/path/to/my/musicfile.ogg ! spider ! volume ! audioscale ! audioconvert ! $(gconftool-2 -g /system/gstreamer/0.8/default/audiosink)
Tried the simple gstreamer pipeline example and it's clearly the same results there too. Lots of clicks and pops. Totem on the other hand does not suffer from this problem though. "Totem 0.8.10 Movie Player using GStreamer version 0.8.10" I've since the first bug report upgraded the Linux kernel to 2.6.12.3.
can you try running the following command? gst-launch-0.8 playbin uri=file:///path/to/file.ogg The command Sven gave you is basically what RB 0.8 does, the above command is what Totem and RB in cvs (and hence 0.9 when it comes out) uses. If that works fine then a) it will be fixed in RB 0.9 and b) this is probably a GStreamer bug
gst-launch-0.8 playbin uri=file:///path/to/file.ogg has all the pops and clicks.
It's odd that it would work in Totem, but not with the above command - because they do pretty much the same thing. As this is occurring from the command line it appears to be a GStreamer bug, so I'm moving it.
vidvandre, is this still a problem with the latest GStreamer 0.8 core and plugins? There were some fixes recently that might solve your problem.
(I believe this has been fixed in one of the last 0.8 releases, ie. 0.8.13 or 0.8.12). Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!