Option to increase play buffer

[Adam Olsen]

Option to increase/decrease/set the play buffer for exaile. e.g. for swamped CIFS/SMB mounts or streaming.

This ticket was migrated from the old trac: re #348

[Mike Drob (mdrob)]

I've done some research on this and it looks like it is not something that can easily be set up using the gstreamer playbin plugin. The only option we'd have is to dig into the internals of gstreamer, and even that might not take. Not really sure though, it was hard to find reliable information. This seems to be a relevant message from the gstreamer-devel list, maybe - http://www.nabble.com/Dinamically-managing-the-buffer-size-in-the-RTP-client-side-td22815397.html

Alternatively, we can wait for playbin2 to be declared stable, it has an exposed buffer-size property according to the API. It looks like rhythmbox uses playbin2, so it might be in a usable state despite still being 'unstable.' Probably warrants some discussion and further research.

[reacocard (reacocard)]

> Alternatively, we can wait for playbin2 to be declared stable, it has an exposed buffer-size property according to the API. It looks like rhythmbox uses playbin2, so it might be in a usable state despite still being 'unstable.' Probably warrants some discussion and further research.

uridecodebin also has this property, and is already used in the unified engine in 0.3. I may end up replacing it with a src + queue + decodebin2 eventually (for more flexibility), but in either case we'll be able to set buffer size at least on the unified engine.