Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 693308
Patch gstreamer-plugins-good to prevent crashes on low-end machines
Last modified: 2011-05-24 22:59:37 EDT
it would greatly benefit Fedora and thus the GNOME3 liveUSB distro if the following patch was applied to gstreamer-plugins-good. The patch is accepted upstream in .28 (F15 appears to ship .27) and has had extensive testing in Ubuntu. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-good/commit/?id=1e2c1467ae042a3c6bb1a6bc0c07aeff13ec5edb Doing so prevents highly reproducible crashing when playing back media on a low-end machines such as a netbook. see: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/644644 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Playback media on low-end machine Actual Results: Pulseaudio will crash or the excessively high CPU load will cause severe skipping Expected Results: Smooth playback, this is 2011
gstreamer-0.10.33-1.fc15,gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.33-1.fc15,gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.22-1.fc15,gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.29-1.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gstreamer-0.10.33-1.fc15,gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.33-1.fc15,gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.22-1.fc15,gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.29-1.fc15
Package gstreamer-0.10.33-1.fc15, gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.33-1.fc15, gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.22-1.fc15, gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.29-1.fc15: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 15 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing gstreamer-0.10.33-1.fc15 gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.33-1.fc15 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.22-1.fc15 gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.29-1.fc15' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gstreamer-0.10.33-1.fc15,gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.33-1.fc15,gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.22-1.fc15,gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.29-1.fc15 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
Package gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.33-1.fc15, gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.22-1.fc15, gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.29-1.fc15, gstreamer-0.10.34-1.fc15: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 15 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.33-1.fc15 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.22-1.fc15 gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.29-1.fc15 gstreamer-0.10.34-1.fc15' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gstreamer-0.10.34-1.fc15,gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.33-1.fc15,gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.22-1.fc15,gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.29-1.fc15 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.33-1.fc15, gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.22-1.fc15, gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.29-1.fc15, gstreamer-0.10.34-1.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.