GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 168836
Audible distortion or break in between songs in "chained ogg" radio station.
Last modified: 2009-11-28 07:44:21 UTC
Please describe the problem: Playing http://ogg.smgradio.com/gr160.ogg (or the supplied Ogg Vorbis file) with Totem you can hear an audible break in between songs but during a song, the program plays fine. Steps to reproduce: 1. Visit http://ogg.smgradio.com/gr160.ogg and listen for a while (or download the attached Ogg Vorbis file and listen to it all the way through), listen past a song so you can hear the break in between songs. 2. The songs sound fine but in-between songs there is a break in audio. 3. After one of these breaks, Totem sometime jumps ahead a bit as though it were "catching up" with where it should be playing had it not been stalled. Now try the same thing with ogg123 on the command-line. No break/stall, continuous audio throughout. Why the difference? Actual results: I hear a break in between songs that I don't hear with ogg123. Expected results: I should hear the same thing whether I'm listening with ogg123 or any other Ogg Vorbis streaming audio player. But Totem sounds like it is having trouble switching from one song to the next. Does this happen every time? Yes Other information:
Created attachment 38076 [details] A fair use snippet of the transition between songs. Listen to this file with ogg123 and with Totem. Totem currently can't handle the switch from one song to the next, but ogg123 handles it smoothly.
Can you try this with gst-plugins CVS (or 0.8.8 when it comes out)? It should be a lot better now (which means: I think this is fixed ;) ).
I'm running FC3 on a dual-processor P3 machine and the problem does not go away despite that I have updated to v0.8.8 on all the GStreamer plugins and other related packages: $ rpm -qa | grep -i gstreamer gstreamer-editor-0.8.0-0.fdr.1.3 gstreamer-0.8.9-0.gst.1.3 gstreamer-plugins-video-0.8.8-0.fdr.1.3 gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio-0.8.8-0.lvn.1.3 gstreamer-plugins-extra-dvd-0.8.8-0.lvn.1.3 gstreamer-plugins-devel-0.8.8-0.fdr.1.3 gstreamer-devel-0.8.9-0.gst.1.3 gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.8.3-0.1.fc3.fr gstreamer-plugins-extra-video-0.8.8-0.lvn.1.3 gstreamer-plugins-audio-0.8.8-0.fdr.1.3 gstreamer-tools-0.8.9-0.gst.1.3 gstreamer-universe-0.8.2-0.fdr.1.3 gstreamer-monkeysaudio-0.8.0-0.1.fc3.fr gstreamer-plugins-0.8.8-0.fdr.1.3 $ rpm -qa | grep -i totem totem-0.99.22-0.fdr.1.3 The same problem is there. The transition happens and there is a brief pause. Then about 3 seconds into the new song ("Working My Way Back to You") there is a skip ahead as though the player were trying to catch up for the time it lost during the pause. I'm using Totem to play the file. Using Xine there is a completely different issue (it won't play the new song at all), using Helix Player there is no audible delay or glitch at all, ogg123 also plays the file perfectly. Try it with the attached Ogg Vorbis file, that's what I'm using to test for the problem on my end.
Now I've got Fedora Core 4 with the following gstreamer and totem: $ rpm -qa | grep -i gstreamer gstreamer-plugins-0.8.8-6 gstreamer-0.8.10-1 $ rpm -qa | grep -i totem totem-1.0.2-1 I still hear the gap between songs. During the gap the title on Totem changes to the new song title ("Working My Way Back To You"). Also, at the end of the test file I hear "Yeah, I'm--I'm". Totem sounds like it backed up a little bit at the end and played it twice. ogg123 has no problems playing the test file through without an audible gap or displaying the new title. There is no double play at the end of the test file. Helix Player has no problems playing the test file through without an audible gap or displaying the new title in the status area at the bottom of its window. There is no double play at the end of the test file.
This is an automated update. Your bug has been in NEEDINFO state for more than 3 months. Please reopen the bug if the problem is still current with recent versions of Totem and that you can provide the information asked for. If your bug has been closed wrongly, feel free to reopen it.
The problem still persists Totem adds a small pause when going to the next audio file in the playlist. There should be a setting for removing the pause between the different files in the playlist and play them as one long file without any pauses in between. Binary package hint: totem ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-gstreamer NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl Package: totem-gstreamer 2.26.1-0ubuntu5 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: totem Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686