rythmbox sound output has "random" gaps when playing an aac encoded radio stream like http://r1.scenesat.com:8000/scenesathi

[Simen Graaten]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

This seems to work fine for mpeg layer3 encoded streams, but scenesat http://scenesat.com/ AAC+ stream is choppy.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: rhythmbox 0.12.0-0ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=nn_NO.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, do you get the issue if you use "gst-launch playbin uri=URI" to play the example?

[Simen Graaten (simeng)]

Yes, same problem using only gst-launch.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

could be a gstreamer issue then, reassigning there for now. thanks.

[Simen Graaten (simeng)]

Problem still exists after upgrading to karmic packages:
ii libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 0.10.24.3-1 GStreamer libraries from the "base" set
ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.24.3-1 Core GStreamer libraries and elements

[KruyKaze (kruykaze)]

I had the same problem trying to play Frisky radio http://205.188.215.229:8024
The mp3 version plays fine but not the better AAC+ version.
It works fine if i use audacious though.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. A new version of GStreamer is available in both Lucid and Maverick and we are wondering if this is still reproducible in any of those versions, May you please test and give us of feedback about it? Thanks in advance.

[Simen Graaten (simeng)]

Yes, It seems to be reproducable with both radio stations on Lucid.

The gaps appear to be pretty random but it is never much more than 5 every 30 seconds, but varies from 0 to 5 from playing for a few minutes.

I also tried running stress in background with: stress --cpu 8 --io 4 --vm 2 --vm-bytes 128M
But that doesn't seem to affect the result.

simeng@simeng-laptop:~$ gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=http://205.188.215.229:8024
simeng@simeng-laptop:~$ gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri=http://r1.scenesat.com:8000/scenesathi

simeng@simeng-laptop:~$ lsb_release -d
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

simeng@simeng-laptop:~$ dpkg -p libgstreamer0.10-0 | grep Vers
Version: 0.10.28-1

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

This bug is an upstream one and it would be quite helpful if somebody experiencing it could send the bug the to the people writing the software. You can learn more about how to do this at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME . Thanks in advance!

[madbiologist (me-again)]

This could be https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620494 which is fixed in GStreamer Good Plug-ins 0.10.24 - see the release notes at http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/gst-plugins-good/0.10.24.html