Victor Roetman wrote:
> I've been using rhythmbox for listening to my mp3 files on my Ubuntu
> laptop. Mostly this was because it supports daap sharing, and gives me
> a nice interface for choosing songs. It works well except I've been
> having sound quality problems.
>
> I seem to get some minor distortion, and some pops and cracks when
> playing a lot of my mp3 files. I took one especially problematic file
> and played it with alsaplayer and had no troubles (at a louder volume
> even). I'm about 98% sure that somehow gstreamer is peaking/clipping,
> even when the volume is way down.
>
> Banshee, I've noticed, does the same thing.
>
> mpg123 and mpg321 seem to have no problems. xine engine of amarok seems
> to work.
>
> Has anyone else noticed anything like this? Is this a problem with
> gstreamer in general? What's going on here? What's with the levels
> that it would clip when it's not even loud?
>
> (and I really wish there was a jack backend for gstreamer)
>
> Any comments, suggestions? Does anyone here follow gstreamer at all?
>
>
>
Hmmm... I would suggest that it was some sort of buffer overrun and
apparently specifically in gstreamer since the xine engine and others
run ok? I run Gstreamer 10 without any problems on a Ubuntu Feisty
Herd 3 system. What are you running for version and distro?
-Jon
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