Bug#430075: rhythmbox skips the first half second

[Tino Keitel]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 23:03:50 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 22:35 +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:
> > I observed some more details: the skip only happens with digital audio.
> > If I enable the internal speaker in my Mac mini, I can hear the tracks
> > from the very bedinning, and half of a second later I can also hear
> > them in the speakers over the digital output.
> > 
> > One could argue that something in my audio setup is fishy, but this
> > only happens in rhythmbox. I tried mplayer and xmms and both hadn't the
> > skip problem.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Can you try this command and see if the problem is Rhythmbox or
> GStreamer;
> 
>         gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=file:///path/to/song.mp3
> 
> You'll need the gstreamer-tools package.

It seems to be a hardware/ALSA problem. Now it happens with xmms and
mpg123, too. It looks like the digital output is sort of disabled until
I play something, and it takes a while after I start playback until I
can hear something.

My amplifier shows "48 kHz" for the digital input when nothing is
played, and switches to 44,1 kHz when I start playback. Maybe that's
the culprit.

> 
> 
> Also, do you know what audio sink GStreamer is configured to use? You
> can check this with 
> 
>         gconftool --get /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/audiosink

autoaudiosink

Regards,
Tino