Bug#430075: rhythmbox skips the first half second

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 23:33 +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:
> > > One could argue that something in my audio setup is fishy, but this
> > > only happens in rhythmbox. I tried mplayer and xmms and both hadn't the
> > > skip problem.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Can you try this command and see if the problem is Rhythmbox or
> > GStreamer;
> > 
> >         gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=file:///path/to/song.mp3
> > 
> > You'll need the gstreamer-tools package.
> 
> It seems to be a hardware/ALSA problem. Now it happens with xmms and
> mpg123, too. It looks like the digital output is sort of disabled until
> I play something, and it takes a while after I start playback until I
> can hear something.
> 
> My amplifier shows "48 kHz" for the digital input when nothing is
> played, and switches to 44,1 kHz when I start playback. Maybe that's
> the culprit.

Hi again,

I'm not sure where this bug report belongs, or how to handle it. The
alsa maintainers obviously didn't think the bug belonged there.

Did something in your configuration change, do you use the digital
output for all music players now (xmms and mpg123 mentioned above) and
didn't before?

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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