airport express chops sound when streaming from the net

[thomas]

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

running lucid lynx. communicating well with airport express and streaming music from rhythmbox works perfectly. Streaming sound from the net is hopeless though - any radiostation, tv program etc. will stream with the sound chopped every second or so. With windows+airfoil it works perfectly. When streaming tv from the computer, the images slow down significantly when the AE is connected - seems like the network is overloaded. Pulseaudio-raop may be doing something strange - but then again, it does work smoothly with the music collection in rhythmbox (??).

[kikvors (kikvors)]

Have the same issue.

[Dirk Seidel (dseidel)]

I have related issues with maverick. Playing sound with rhythmbox, exaile, totem or dragon player on the airport express works pretty good, though it is sometimes a little unstable. The only strange thing I notice is that there is a constant data transfer to the AE (approx. 100kb/s) even when no sound is playing. All these applications use or are configured to use gstreamer.
Unfortunately mplayer, xine and vlc are not usable as the sound is completely choppy. This is a big issue for me as sound and video output are not in sync when using the AE. But the latter players are the only ones I know were you can adjust the synchronization.

[Dirk Seidel (dseidel)]

Update: The constant data transfer to the AE (even when there is no sound output) is only a little less than 50kb/s. When I play sound with one of the applications that work well with the AE, the data transfer increases to approx. 200kb/s. When using mplayer, xine or vlc, the data transfer does not seem to go up at all, even though some choppy sound is being transmitted to the AE. Hope this helps locating the bug.

[Tomodachi (tomodachi)]

in ubuntu natty its actually 200 kb/s when playing from banshee

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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