Version: 1.1-cvs20050128 (using KDE KDE 3.3.2) Installed from: Unlisted Binary Package Compiler: GCC 3.4.3 OS: Linux Gstreamer 0.8.8 Gst-plugins 0.8.7 Crossfade (in/out): tried 200ms, 2000ms (default), 1000ms... same result Behaviour: 1. before starting the 1st song, a ~2s break in playing occurs... and then the fade in starts.. song continues with no problem 2. between 1st and 2nd song, before the crossfading should occur, the same ~2s break appears and then the crossfading is done and the 2nd song continues. It hogs (50% CPU - this is what KDE System Guard shows up for my HT CPU) between: amarok: [CollectionDB] ...... and amarok: [Gst-Engine] XFade-in finished. This doesn't happen with Xine-engine. In the Xine-engine case I get amarok: [CollectionDB] SELECT .... and immediately... amarok: [xine-engine] sleep: ... (lots of lines) amarok: [xine-engine] sleep: 240000 volume: 0 amarok: [xine-engine] [virtual Fader::~Fader()] Let me know if I can provide more feedback. amarok's output doesn't seem to reveal anything suspicious.
Is this with ogg vorbis files? Does it also happen for mp3?
It happens with mp3 files, I haven't tested with OGG. Minor update: I'm using the 1.1 CVS version 2005-01-28 on GNU Linux.
I suppose you mean 1.2-CVS?
Err... yeah. But I don't know why it was packed as 1.1CVS after mxcl's post on the ArchLinux Forums [1] (I'm using ArchLinux). I'll notify the maintainer. [1] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=9520
same here, changing songs always has a gap with gstreamer, also with crossfading disabled. using the same gstreamer, gst-plugins version.
Make sure you don't have gst-ffmpeg installed, I hear that does weird things.
yes, gst-ffmpeg is the bad guy
Alright, closing this report, and adding an entry to our FAQ.
I do not have gst-ffmpeg installed: dpkg -l | grep -i ffmpeg gives no results. However I do have the mad plugin installed, as suggested in the FAQ: dpkg -l | grep -i mad ii gstreamer-mad 0.6.4-5.1 MAD MPEG audio decoder plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer0.8-m 0.8.7-3 MAD MPEG audio decoder plugin for GStreamer ii libgpgme11 1.0.2-1 GPGME - GnuPG Made Easy ii libgpgme6 0.3.16-2 GPGME - GnuPG Made Easy ii libid3tag0 0.15.1b-3 ID3 tag reading library from the MAD project ii libmad0 0.15.1b-1 MPEG audio decoder library ii libmad0-dev 0.15.1b-1 MPEG audio decoder development library I have the following gstreamer plugins installed: ii gstreamer-alsa 0.6.4-5.1 ALSA plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer-audi 0.6.4-5.1 AudioFile plugin for GStreamer rc gstreamer-flac 0.6.4-5.1 FLAC plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer-gcon 0.6.4-5.1 GConf support for GStreamer ii gstreamer-gnom 0.6.4-5.1 Gnome VFS plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer-mad 0.6.4-5.1 MAD MPEG audio decoder plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer-misc 0.6.4-5.1 Collection of various GStreamer plugins ii gstreamer-oss 0.6.4-5.1 OSS plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer-plug 0.6.4-5.1 Simple GStreamer applications ii gstreamer-plug 0.6.4-5.1 Various GStreamer library plugins ii gstreamer-plug 0.6.4-5.1 Development files for various GStreamer libr ii gstreamer-tool 0.6.4-1.1 Tools for use with GStreamer ii gstreamer-vorb 0.6.4-5.1 Vorbis plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer0.8-a 0.8.7-3 ATSC A/52 audio decoder plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer0.8-a 0.8.7-3 AA-lib plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer0.8-a 0.8.7-3 ALSA plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer0.8-a 0.8.7-3 aRtsd plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer0.8-a 0.8.7-3 AudioFile plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer0.8-c 0.8.7-3 Colour AsCii Art library plugin for GStreame ii gstreamer0.8-c 0.8.7-3 cdparanoia plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer0.8-d 0.8.7-3 DV plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer0.8-d 0.8.7-3 DVD plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer0.8-e 0.8.7-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon plugin for GStreame ii gstreamer0.8-f 0.8.7-3 Festival speech synthesis plugin for GStream ii gstreamer0.8-f 0.8.7-3 FLAC plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer0.8-g 0.8.7-3 Gnome VFS plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer0.8-g 0.8.7-3 GSM plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer0.8-h 0.8.7-3 colorspace conversion plugin for GStreamer b ii gstreamer0.8-j 0.8.7-3 JACK plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer0.8-j 0.8.7-3 JPEG plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer0.8-m 0.8.7-3 MAD MPEG audio decoder plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer0.8-m 0.8.7-3 MikMod decoder plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer0.8-m 0.8.7-3 Collection of various GStreamer plugins ii gstreamer0.8-m 0.8.7-3 MPEG1 and MPEG2 video decoder plugin for GSt ii gstreamer0.8-o 0.8.7-3 OSS plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer0.8-p 0.8.7-3 Simple GStreamer applications ii gstreamer0.8-p 0.8.7-3 All GStreamer plugins ii gstreamer0.8-s 0.8.7-3 SDL videosink plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer0.8-s 0.8.7-3 C64 SID decoder plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer0.8-s 0.8.7-3 Speex plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer0.8-s 0.8.7-3 SWF (Macromedia Flash) decoder plugin for GS ii gstreamer0.8-t 0.8.7-3 Theora plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer0.8-t 0.8.8-1 Tools for use with GStreamer ii gstreamer0.8-v 0.8.7-3 Vorbis plugin for GStreamer ii gstreamer0.8-x 0.8.7-3 X videosink plugin for GStreamer ii libgstreamer-g 0.8.7-3 GConf support for GStreamer ii libgstreamer-p 0.8.7-3 Various GStreamer libraries and library plug ii libgstreamer-p 0.8.7-3 Development files for various GStreamer libr ii libgstreamer0. 0.6.4-1.1 Core GStreamer libraries, plugins, and utili ii libgstreamer0. 0.8.8-1 Core GStreamer libraries, plugins, and utili ii libgstreamer0. 0.8.8-1 GStreamer development libraries and headers ii libkdegst0.6 0.6.1-8 KDE bindings for GStreamer (shared libraries
Removed gst-ffmpeg. - alsasink produces a tiny annoying gap, exactly when amarok outputs [CollectionDB]... (I think I've reported this before, but on IRC) - osssink works
I noticed that the gap does not occur in all kinds of fades: When I press "stop" the fade begins without a preceeding gap, but when I change from one song to another, the gap occurs.
Using osssink is not very benefic for my system. ALSA handles the sounds everywhere, mixing them if possible (with sounds from other apps). I've tried switching back to xine-engine BUT it didn't work. Reinstalling gst-ffmpeg fixed xine-engine (unfortunately, xine-engine does not use alsa). This makes me think: 1. xine-engine somehow depends on gst-ffmpeg 2. gst-ffmpeg works, but gstreamer-engine does not use it properly. I have also noticed that gstreamer-engine + alsasink uses a lot more CPU that gstreamer-engine + osssink/xine-engine. Crossfading in gstreamer-engine is done a lot more properly compared to crossfading in xine-engine. Using xine-engine, stopping a song does not fade out for example. (well.. this is another issue).