Recently, I noticed that previews of Ogg Vorbis files in Nautilus sounded absolutely awful (they've sounded fine previously). I have gstreamer configured to use the ALSA sink, and other ALSA applications sound fine, including playing the exact same files through ogg123 or beep-media-player. The same problem occurs when manually running the files through gstreamer, via the command line: gst-launch-0.8 filesrc location=file.ogg ! oggdemux ! vorbisdec ! audioconvert ! alsasink I'm fairly certain the problem's in either audioconvert or alsasink, since when I piped the result back out to a file, like so: gst-launch-0.8 filesrc location=file.ogg ! oggdemux ! vorbisdec ! audioconvert ! rawvorbisenc ! oggmux ! filesink location=file2.ogg the resulting file2.ogg sounds fine (when played through something other than gstreamer, obviously). Running sinesrc through alsasink sounds fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Play an Ogg Vorbis file through alsasink, using given command line, or Nautilus's preview capability. Actual Results: It sounds awful. Choppy, distorted, noisy. Expected Results: Perfect playback, as per other ALSA apps on the same machine. Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Jun 11 2005, 14:43:08)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.7.9-r1, 1.6.3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -mtune=athlon64 -march=athlon64 -m64 -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mtune=athlon64 -march=athlon64 -m64 -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://gentoo.ccccom.com/ http://www.die.unipd.it/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo-sources/ http://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/gentoo/" LC_ALL="en_GB.utf8" 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="amd64 X aac acpi adns alsa avi bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cscope cups curl dvd dvdr eds encode exif ffmpeg font-server gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imagemagick imap imlib jabber joystick jp2 jpeg libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad mikmod mng mozilla mp3 mpeg msn ncurses nls nptl offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png python quicktime readline samba sdl spell ssl svg tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vorbis wmf xine xml2 xpm xrandr xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS Versions of relevant packages: gstreamer 0.8.10, gst-plugins 0.8.9-r2, gst-plugins-alsa 0.8.9
can you try with alsasink device=hw:0 and alsasink device=plug:dmix and let me know if either of those improves the sound.
device=hw:0 didn't make any difference, and device=plug:dmix resulted in silence. I expected the latter; I don't have dmix configured in any way, as I'm lucky enough to have a card with supported hardware mixing (SoundFusion CS46**) I suppose I could configure dmix temporarily and try again, would that be worthwhile?
what version of alsa-lib? also can you give me the output of: gst-launch-0.8 -v filesrc location=file.ogg ! oggdemux ! vorbisdec ! audioconvert ! alsasink
alsa-lib 1.0.9 "gst-launch-0.8 -v filesrc location=lokki.ogg ! oggdemux ! vorbisdec ! audioconvert ! alsasink" says: RUNNING pipeline ... /pipeline0/filesrc0.src: caps = application/ogg /pipeline0/oggdemux0.sink: caps = application/ogg /pipeline0/filesrc0.src: active = TRUE /pipeline0/oggdemux0.sink: active = TRUE /pipeline0/oggdemux0.serial_1434747362: caps = audio/x-vorbis /pipeline0/vorbisdec0.sink: caps = audio/x-vorbis /pipeline0/vorbisdec0.sink: active = TRUE /pipeline0/vorbisdec0.src: active = TRUE /pipeline0/audioconvert0.sink: active = TRUE /pipeline0/audioconvert0.src: active = TRUE /pipeline0/alsasink0.sink: active = TRUE /pipeline0/audioconvert0.src: caps = audio/x-raw-int, rate=(int)44100, channels=(int)2, endianness=(int)1234, width=(int)16, depth=(int)16, signed=(boolean)true/pipeline0/alsasink0.sink: caps = audio/x-raw-int, rate=(int)44100, channels=(int)2, endianness=(int)1234, width=(int)16, depth=(int)16, signed=(boolean)true /pipeline0/vorbisdec0.src: caps = audio/x-raw-float, rate=(int)44100, channels=(int)2, endianness=(int)1234, width=(int)32, buffer-frames=(int)0 /pipeline0/audioconvert0.sink: caps = audio/x-raw-float, rate=(int)44100, channels=(int)2, endianness=(int)1234, width=(int)32, buffer-frames=(int)0 Execution ended after 459 iterations (sum 4463011000 ns, average 9723335 ns, min 5000 ns, max 46618000 ns). Caught interrupt. /pipeline0/filesrc0.src: active = FALSE /pipeline0/oggdemux0.sink: active = FALSE /pipeline0/oggdemux0.serial_1434747362: active = FALSE /pipeline0/vorbisdec0.sink: active = FALSE /pipeline0/vorbisdec0.src: active = FALSE /pipeline0/audioconvert0.sink: active = FALSE /pipeline0/audioconvert0.src: active = FALSE /pipeline0/alsasink0.sink: active = FALSE /pipeline0/filesrc0.src: caps = NULL /pipeline0/oggdemux0.sink: caps = NULL /pipeline0/vorbisdec0.src: caps = NULL /pipeline0/audioconvert0.sink: caps = NULL /pipeline0/audioconvert0.src: caps = NULL /pipeline0/alsasink0.sink: caps = NULL
please try downgrading to alsa-lib 1.0.8 and use 2.6.11 kernel rather than 2.6.12, i believe the alsa 1.0.9 drivers and libs caused a few soundcards to have issues. The reason ogg123 and other alsa apps sound fine, is that gstreamer uses more of the alsa api which in certain alsa device drivers is buggy.
Things seem to improve greatly when using "alsasink period-size=1024 buffer-size=4096", however, Ogg Vorbis absolutely REQUIRES that audioconvert be placed in the pipeline between vorbisdec and alsasink if it is to work at all. This is on a cs46xx (Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24) with alsa-lib 1.0.9, gst-plugins-alsa 0.8.11, and in-kernel ALSA drivers from gentoo-sources 2.6.13-r3, with no /etc/asound.conf. To summarise, setting GNOME's default audio sink to "audioconvert ! alsasink period-size=1024 buffer-size=4096" results in working, clear playback of Ogg Vorbis, WAV and MP3.
Append "... when previewing sound files in Nautilus" to the last paragraph above; sorry. Using a similar pipe on the command line also works, of course. All 3 formats could already be played back fine with other (non-gstreamer) ALSA apps.
Hi I'm having the same problem with the alsasink. This is my asound.conf pcm.mixer { type dmix ipc_key 1024 slave { pcm "hw:0,0" #period_time 0 period_size 1024 buffer_size 8192 rate 44100 } } pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "mixer" } This gives a choppy sound: gst-launch-0.8 sinesrc ! alsasink and this doesn't: gst-launch-0.8 sinesrc ! alsasink period-size=1024 There appears to be a bug on the gnome bugzilla that deals with this problem: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314689 I'm using gstreamer-0.8.11, alsa-driver-1.0.10_rc3. Ih op this helps. My emerge info: Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac alsa ao aotuv apache2 artworkextra atlas audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cairo cdf cdr cpdflib cpudetection crypt cups curl dbus dga dio directfb divx4linux djbfft dlloader dnd doc dpms droproot dts dv dvb dvd dvdread edl eds effects encode erandom ethereal evms2 exif expat fam fb fbcon fbdev fftw flac foomaticdb fortran fs gd gdbm gif ginac glut gnome gnomedb gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal howl idn imagemagick imap imlib inkjar ipv6 java jpeg justify lapack lcms libcaca libg++ libgda libvisual libwww live lm_sensors lzo mad matroska mbpx md5sum mhash mikmod mmx mng mp3 mpeg mpeg4 mplayer msql mysql mysqli mythtv ncurses nls no-old-linux nomac nomotif noplugin nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pango pcre pdflib perl physfs plotutils plugin png ppds python quicktime readline real recode rrdtool rtc sapdb sdk sdl sharedmem shorten slang sockets speex spell sse sse2 ssl subp svg sysfs sysvipc tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff toolbar transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb utf8 v4l v4l2 vcd vidix vim-with-x vorbis wifi wmf xanim xine xml xml2 xmms xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc yv12 zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
If you still have issues w/ current gstreamer versions, file a new bug. Thanks.
