Bug#247818: rhythmbox skips mp3 when using alsa with snd-via82xx

[Vaidotas Zemlys]

Package: rhythmbox
Version: 0.8.3-1
Severity: normal
Tags: experimental

Rhythmbox does not play mp3 normally with alsa, the sound skips.  It
uses about 20% of CPU, when playing and if you do something intensive
you can't listen to music at all. This does not happen with Totem, Beep
Media player and alsaplayer. And it does not happen with Rhythmbox when
oss drivers are used. Changing audiosink from osssink to alsasink and
vice versa does not have any effect. 

I have VIA KT133 motheboard with AC97 on-board sound. dpkg -l | grep
alsa on my system produces result:
 
ii  alsa-base 1.0.4-3                  ALSA sound driver common files
ii  alsa-headers            1.0.4-3                  ALSA sound driver header files
ii  alsa-modules-2.4.25.0404 1.0.3-1+1.0              Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (drivers)
ii  alsa-oss                 1.0.4-1                  Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (OSS compatibility library)
ii  alsa-source              1.0.4-3                  ALSA sound driver source
ii  alsa-utils               1.0.4-1                  Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (utilities)
ii  alsaplayer               0.99.76-0.1              PCM player designed for ALSA
ii  alsaplayer-common        0.99.76-0.1              PCM player designed for ALSA (common files)
ii  alsaplayer-gtk           0.99.76-0.1              PCM player designed for ALSA (GTK version)
ii  alsaplayer-oss           0.99.76-0.1              PCM player designed for ALSA (OSS output module)
ii  gnome-alsamixer          0.9.6-1                  ALSA sound mixer for GNOME
ii  gstreamer-alsa           0.6.4-4                  ALSA plugin for GStreamer

On-board soun according to lspci:
0000:00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)

Module snd-via82xx is used with alsa, and module via82cxxx_audio with oss.

Mpiktas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (400, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25.040405
Locale: LANG=lt_LT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=lt_LT.UTF-8

Versions of packages rhythmbox depends on:
ii  gconf2                    2.6.1-1        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gstreamer0.8-gnomevfs     0.8.1-2        Gnome VFS plugin for GStreamer
ii  gstreamer0.8-mad          0.8.1-2        MAD MPEG audio decoder plugin for 
ii  gstreamer0.8-misc         0.8.1-2        Collection of various GStreamer pl
ii  gstreamer0.8-oss          0.8.1-2        OSS plugin for GStreamer
ii  gstreamer0.8-vorbis       0.8.1-2        Vorbis plugin for GStreamer
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-5       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.6.1-1        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0             0.2.6-3        Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.6.0-1        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.6.0-2        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-12   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd0                   0.2.29-1       Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libgconf2-4               2.6.1-1        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt7                1.1.90-1.1     LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.3.6-4      Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.4.1-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0         0.2.1-1        GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0               2.6.1-1        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.6.0-4        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.6.1-4        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.6.1.1-2      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls10               1.0.4-3        GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-error0             0.7-1          library for common error values an
ii  libgstreamer-gconf0.8-0   0.8.1-2        GConf support for GStreamer
ii  libgstreamer0.8-0         0.8.1-2        Core GStreamer libraries, plugins,
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.4.0-4        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                 6b-9           The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.10.0-0.1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.4.0-2        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-4          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System Session Management
ii  libtasn1-2                0.2.7-1        Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2                   2.6.9-2        GNOME XML library
ii  scrollkeeper              0.3.14-8       A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  vorbis-tools              1.0.1-1        Several Ogg Vorbis Tools
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.1-5      compression library - runtime

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