GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 515064
Totem plays very slowly when pulseaudio server down
Last modified: 2008-02-07 21:22:39 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.
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
Refiled as http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/240 .