Rhythmbox playback is choppy when I try to play a file. Xmms playback works fine. The version I'm using is rhythmbox-0.9.1-1.
I'm getting the same thing with rhythmbox-0.9.2-4. It's probably an alsa problem but we gotta start somewhere. My sound card is using snd_cs46xx. Xmms also works fine so I'm guessing alsa. As an aside, is rendevous type auto detection of music shares supposed to work? Maybe I should file another bug?
I use the alsa output plugin with Xmms so if it's really the backend then my money would be on gstreamer. Unfortunately debugging isn't easy because: a) It's extremely hard to understand which configuration Fedora is running due to the alsa configuration mess. Something like "/proc/asound/config" would be nice that contains the actual running configuration. Right now I can't even figure out if I'm running dmix or not. b) There is no obvious way to configure gstreamer in Fedora so it's not possible to switch e.g. between alsa and oss for debugging purposes. c) Rhythmbox does not provide any audio output configuration options either which wouldn't be a problem if b) was fixed.
My bad. I meant gstreamer as my xmms is using alsa too. Under gnome, you can go to Preferences->More Preferences->Multimedia Systems Selector to change what gstreamer users for input and output. I'll try that later today.
We are moving to gstreamer 0.10 with rythmbox. It should be in over the weekend. Please try again when you get the update.
I've got gstreamer10 installed but I don't know if rhythmbox is using it yet. But, using the MSS pref and switching the output to esd, rhythmbox works fine.
you will need to uninstall gstreamer10 as core now contains gstreamer-0.10 which will conflict (gstreamer10 was never in any offical repository). Only the CVS version of rythmbox can take advantage of gstreamer 0.10 and it needs to be compiled in.
I only have devel and extras-devel enabled. Actually they are what you're saying: katratzi> rpm -qa | grep gstreamer gstreamer-plugins-0.8.11-1.1 gstreamer08-plugins-0.8.11-2 gstreamer08-0.8.11-2 gstreamer-0.10.0-1 gstreamer-tools-0.10.0-1 katratzi>
Cool, I'm compiling rythmbox with gstreamer 0.10 support today.
I've tried rhythmbox with gstreamer10 since mid-december with little success but a new CVS checkout with the fedora gstreamer-0.10 packages seems to work fine. There are some other issues regarding rhythmbox itself but these have nothing to do with this bug and I'll carry them over the the rhythmbox mailinglist. I think this bug can be marked as fixed.
Thanks for the notice, closing this bug report.