Bug#423130: totem inserts pauses between tracks

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 18:21 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> forwarded 423130 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320227
> thanks
> 
> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 18:56 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> > Totem inserts little pauses between audio tracks.  This is crucial to 
> > avoid for certain recordings.  For example, opera recordings are meant 
> > to be played continuously, without pause between the tracks.  This works
> > just fine with any commercial CD player, and xmms put much energy into 
> > getting it right.  totem now needs to put that energy in too.  It 
> > requires getting the next stream ready while the last one is finishing 
> > so that the first sample can be played right on time.  Even the tiniest 
> > delay is noticeable and distracting and a bug.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> There's already an upstream bug requesting this feature, so I'm marking
> the bug as forwarded. 
> 
> Totem is really a movie player, not an all purpose "media player", so I
> don't think this feature is a high priority. If you want gapless
> playback I would suggest you try Rhythmbox. Current SVN has this feature
> and it works really well.

I do use rhythmbox also, but totem is very convenient for playing a few
tracks without interacting with a big music library, and it should play
them correctly.

If you are correct that rhythmbox svn does this, it must be that
gstreamer now makes it feasible, and so it shouldn't be too much trouble
to fix up totem.

Gapless playback is not a music-only thing.  Imagine a series of videos
that should be played in sequence without gaps.

Thomas