Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Unwanted initial delay

[Gisli Ottarsson <gisli adams com>]

I am using OSS and I have never used anything else.

Gisli



On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 21:50, Brad Taylor wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 14:15, Gisli Ottarsson wrote:
> > Ever since I updated Rhythmbox in my Debian system to version 0.8.x I
> > have endured an annoying delay for every song played.  The delay ranges
> > from 5-15 seconds of absolute quiet.  The seconds are ticking away but
> > there is no sound.  When the song starts it seems to start at the
> > beginning, although a number of seconds has allegedly passed. It is
> > almost like it is artificially adding the duration normally experienced
> > between song on a CD/LP, but this is annoying when manually jumping to
> > the next song.  I've updated with every subsequent version of Rhythmox
> > and GStreamer to hit Unstable, hoping the problem would go away but it
> > has not yet.
> 
> What output sink are you using in GStreamer?  You can check by running
> gstreamer-properties.  I had similar problems when using the ALSA sink
> that were resolved switching to either the OSS sink or the ESD sink.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> -Brad