Bug#220843: rhythmbox: Takes a long time (~2 sec) to start playing a file

[Sebastien Bacher]

"Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org> writes:

> I think the 2.6 kernel is a red herring.  I have the same problem on
> kernel 2.4.23 and 2.4.22 before that.  I am also using the intel8x0 ALSA
> driver, so perhaps this is the source of the problem.
>
> Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to make rhythmbox/gstreamer
> use real ALSA output instead of OSS.  Any hints?

You can perhaps Use gstreamer-properties (from gnome-media) to switch
the output to esdsink (se the bugzilla bug report) ?
 

Cheers,

Sebastien Bacher