Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Unwanted initial delay

[Benjamin Otte <in7y118 public uni-hamburg de>]

Hehe, if you do something non-normal, it's always a good idea to tell
this. :)

Yes, the current release of gst-plugins reads a whole ogg file before
starting playback. This is optimized away in current cvs and should be
quite a bit faster.

So if that's really the problem, it shouldn't happen with mp3s, right?

Benjamin


On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Gisli Ottarsson wrote:

>
> Long-shot or not, the library reload was easily tested and I think I
> learned something in the process.  My library lives on a server in my
> house but I do my listening on a laptop  connected via a low-speed
> wireless network. Re-loading the library from the server take a *long*
> time, so I figured I would load only a handful of files I have local to
> the laptop.  I found that when playing these files I didn't experience
> the delay.
>
> Is it possible that gstreamer-0.8 processes the entire .ogg file before
> starting to play?  If so, that would explain it because sucking a 5Mb
> file over the wireless network might take the few seconds I talked
> about before.  This  definitely was *not* happening in pre 0.8 versions
> of Rhythmbox.  Might there be a gstreamer setting to stream the file
> rather than grabbing the whole thing first.
>
> I loaded the library and the delay is still there.
>
>  Gisli
>
> PS: When I proceeded to load the server library I ran into an annoying
> quirk of the File dialog box which handles the Import Folder
> operation.   My library is in an automounted directory and but how the
> heck do I trigger the mount from the File dbox when all I can do is
> click stuff?  I had to start a terminal and list the directory to mount
> it before it showed up in the File dbox.
>
> Could I have typed something into the Add Location panel?  file://...
> or something?
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 21:57, Colin Walters wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 16:48 -0500, Tyler Longren wrote:
> > > I doubt you're doing anything wrong.  It's probably a bug.  I had this
> > > problem a while back but has since been fixed on my system.  I waited
> > > for a few new releases of Rhythmbox to come out and then updated and
> > > it was all fixed.
> >
> > Do you happen to remember which version fixed it?
> >
> > > Have you tried clearing your library and adding the songs to it again?
> >
> > That almost certainly won't change anything related to playback.  The
> > only thing I can think of at all related is the ReplayGain bits.
> >
> >
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