Bug 1302007

Summary: Radio streaming in general works really bad
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: srakitnican <samuel.rakitnican>
Component: rhythmboxAssignee: David King <amigadave>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 27CC: bnocera, gkrithi8, samuel.rakitnican, stevetucknott
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Description srakitnican 2016-01-26 14:10:33 UTC
Description of problem: MP3 streams (when actually starts) there is no audio. For the OGG streams they tend to work if played for the first time after program starts. Sometimes process requires to be terminated manually from command line. If paused and then resumed stream begins to stutter for like every 10 sec. And is not a network buffering issue because it's the same for different stream qualities and radio channels. At some point stream just freezes, time stops.

When started from command line there are no errors related to what is happening with stream, so I am not sure how to debug this.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhythmbox-3.2.1-5.fc23.x86_64

How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start rhythmbox
2. Play ogg stream e.g. Radio Paradise
3. Stop and resume.

Actual results: Stream stalls or stutters.


Expected results: Stream plays without artifacts.


Additional info:

Comment 1 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2016-09-15 15:16:25 UTC
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This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

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Comment 4 srakitnican 2016-11-24 20:35:37 UTC
Still an issue, stream goes for couple of seconds only, then there is no sound anymore. Stop/resume stream makes it work again for couple of seconds.

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Comment 6 srakitnican 2017-11-17 08:57:03 UTC
FWIW a quick check, still an issue with Fedora 27 and OGG stream "Radio Paradise". Stream breaks after about half a minute. Not using Rhythmbox anymore though, so this bug may be closed if there is no one else who cares.

Comment 7 gkrithi8 2017-11-17 09:25:34 UTC
Have never had any issues playing radio streams in rhythmbox. Tested "Radio Paradise" ( low / high ) on FC24 / FC27 with no issues. 

Run "rhythmbox -d' in a terminal, play the radio, wait for issues / stutter, close rhythmbox, and attach the output file here.

Comment 8 srakitnican 2017-11-17 09:55:56 UTC
Created attachment 1354070 [details]
"rhythmbox -d" example output of a failed stream

Hi gkrithi8,

Stream ends (no sound) around message "[tick_cb] rb-shell-player.c:2580:" which repeats itself until Rhythmbox is closed or the stream is stopped.

Thanks for your input.

Comment 9 gkrithi8 2017-11-17 10:54:45 UTC
Do the following:

1. Rhythmbox -> Preferences -> Playback -> Disable "Crossfading between tracks"
2. Close [ pkill ] and open rhythmbox.
3. Play "Radio Paradise" now, and see if the issue goes away.

Comment 10 srakitnican 2017-11-17 11:34:31 UTC
Created attachment 1354129 [details]
"rhythmbox -d" example output with lots of buffering

Disabling crossfading seems to have eliminated the ending of a stream!

For the stuttering it seems that stream is buffering a lot on a first minute of the stream or so, later it settles down and there are no more issues.

[bus_cb] rb-player-gst.c:611: buffering - temporarily pausing playback

I think I have plenty of bandwidth, no other process on a network clogging the line so I believe this is not the issue.

Comment 11 gkrithi8 2017-11-17 11:48:43 UTC
Rhythmbox uses gstreamer backend for playing tracks / streams. So, you can quickly do the following in a terminal to root cause issues.

$ gst-play-1.0 http://stream-dc1.radioparadise.com/rp_192m.ogg

You can observe the buffering here. If the stream plays fine here and not in rhythmbox, it is a rhythmbox issue. Else the issue is not in rhythmbox, and could possibly be a gstreamer related issue.

Also, you can report the cross fade issue to rhythmbox upstream at:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=rhythmbox

Comment 12 gkrithi8 2017-11-19 09:35:28 UTC
Relevant rhythmbox upstream bug:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790497

Comment 13 SteveT 2017-11-19 09:57:34 UTC
*** Bug 1493430 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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