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Bug 515064 - Totem plays very slowly when pulseaudio server down
Totem plays very slowly when pulseaudio server down
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: totem
Classification: Core
Component: GStreamer backend
2.20.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Maintainer alias for GStreamer component of Totem
Maintainer alias for GStreamer component of Totem
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-02-07 20:10 UTC by Peter Williams
Modified: 2008-02-07 21:22 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.19/2.20



Description Peter Williams 2008-02-07 20:10:29 UTC
Please describe the problem:
I was trying to play an ogg video, specifically the one at http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Thu/mel8-178.ogg . At first I thought that it wasn't playing at all, but then I realized that the file was just playing extremely slowly, say at 1.5 seconds per frame. 

I had been doing this after I brought my laptop back from suspend-to-disk, which often causes my pulseaudio server to lock up in some way. I tried restarting my pulse server, and after that the video played back ok.

I know that this bug almost definitely isn't in Totem itself, but I don't know whether it belongs in pulseaudio, in gstreamer, or what. 

Steps to reproduce:
1. Lock up your pulseaudio server somehow. The process is still running, but it isn't responding to requests for some reason: 'paplay /path/to/some.wav' will report a 'Connection refused'. I can trigger this by resuming my laptop from suspend-to-disk.

2. Play a video using PulseAudio output on the GStreamer backend.


Actual results:
Extremely slow video playback: again, ~1.5 seconds per frame.

Expected results:
Normal playback.

Does this happen every time?
Yes.

Other information:
Again, sorry for filing this in the wrong place, but I don't have the expertise to narrow down where I should report this bug.
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2008-02-07 20:31:12 UTC
My guess is that the pulsesink is doing something bad, but it's not provided by GStreamer but by gst-pulse. You can report bugs against gst-pulse at: http://www.pulseaudio.org/report
Comment 2 Peter Williams 2008-02-07 21:22:39 UTC
Refiled as http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/240 .