When using Gstreamer engine with Amarok, upon song change there is a long delay. Before and after delay times are set to 0. If crossfader is enabled, the song stops short, pauses for ~3 seconds, and then plays the next song. Crossfading does not work as expected, due to the pause on song change, which is also present with crossfader turned off. Using Arts or Xine engines do not produce any delay while chaning songs. (These engines don't however have crossfaders options so this doesn't make for an easy work around to get crossfading working.) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Run amarok 2.Select gstreamer engine 3.play! Actual Results: There is a few second delay while changing songs. gstreamer 0.8.9-r1, amarok 1.2.1, also had it under 1.0.2. Emerge info: Portage 2.0.51.18 (default-linux/x86/2004.2, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r0, 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.9 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Feb 20 2005, 23:11:28)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r5 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r1, 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ccccom.com ftp://206.75.217.180/ ftp://206.75.217.181/ ftp://206.75.217.205/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib acpi alsa apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdparanoia cdr compositor crypt cups curl dga divx4linux dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode esd f77 fam fbcon font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imlib java javascript jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mmx2 motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nocardbus nptl nvidia offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic png ppds python qt quicktime readline real rtc samba scanner sdl slang spell sse sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb vim-with-x wifi xine xml xml2 xmms xscreensaver xv yahoo zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
This is probably an amarok problem, we cannot do much for it. See here for reference: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99559
I'm not sure it is Amarok, I see the same problem with other python media apps since I've updated my gstreamer.
