Bug 217388 - Scolling with mousewheel in KMail opened "Linux ToDay Newsletter" distorts music played with Amarok
Summary: Scolling with mousewheel in KMail opened "Linux ToDay Newsletter" distorts mu...
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: kmail
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 1.12.2
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2009-12-05 00:39 UTC by Frans Leerink
Modified: 2010-03-08 21:07 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Screen capture of Your Linux Today Newsletter (327.52 KB, image/png)
2009-12-05 00:42 UTC, Frans Leerink
Details
Linux Today Newsletter file (49.16 KB, application/mbox)
2009-12-05 00:46 UTC, Frans Leerink
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Description Frans Leerink 2009-12-05 00:39:35 UTC
Version:           1.12.2 (using 4.3.1 (KDE 4.3.1) "release 6", openSUSE 11.2)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop

Hello,

I receive via KMail My "YOUR LINUX TODAY NEWSLETTER's". 
If I open a newsletter in HTML format and scroll through the summary of the articles, the music my desktop computer is playing is distorted (very short disruptions/breakages, many in a second. It sound just like Louis Armstrong was singing. Every mousewheel click causes 3-5 disruptions/breakages) 

I will attach a screen copy of the newsletter and a copy of the newsletter mailbox file

Regards,   Frans
Comment 1 Frans Leerink 2009-12-05 00:42:46 UTC
Created attachment 38834 [details]
Screen capture of Your Linux Today Newsletter
Comment 2 Frans Leerink 2009-12-05 00:46:52 UTC
Created attachment 38835 [details]
Linux Today Newsletter file

This is just an example file, the problem exists with all files
Comment 3 Björn Ruberg 2009-12-08 01:12:59 UTC
How can we reproduce this? Does this happen only with "Linux ToDay Newsletter" or with every HTML-mail? Does this happen always to you? Does amarok stutter in different situations?
Comment 4 Frans Leerink 2009-12-08 11:27:36 UTC
Hello Bjoern,

Open the attached file id 38835 with kmail as proposed. Open the text document in html by clicking on body part html and then again on 2 popup windows.

If you than scroll through the articles while the computer plays in Amarok a quiet song you should hear the twitter. You hear it also if you scroll through the text version of the document.
It is not restricted to the Linux TODAY Newsletter, it happens allways by reading mail via Kontact/kmail, as long I use the scrollwheel. Clicking with the mouse on the scollbar does not cause the stutter effect.
Amarok does not stutter in other situations, like scrolling with the mouse wheel through a large pdf document with ADOBE Reader.

Hopefully this helps

Regards, Frans
Comment 5 Björn Ruberg 2010-03-07 23:50:47 UTC
This must be someway caused by your sound server not running with enough priority. I think here is nothing kmail devs can fix.
Comment 6 Frans Leerink 2010-03-08 11:42:43 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> This must be someway caused by your sound server not running with enough
> priority. I think here is nothing kmail devs can fix.

How can I find What priority my sound server used and what should it be and where/how can I set that

Regards,  Frans
Comment 7 Björn Ruberg 2010-03-08 21:07:06 UTC
That is beyond the scope of the kde bugzilla. Can you search for stuff like "pulseaudio stutter" or similar in the web? Here you will probably not get much help about your sound server.