[gst-devel] GStreamer-alsa - does it utilize libalsa ?

[Andy Wingo]

Hi Arioch,

On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 19:07 +0400, Arioch wrote:
> On my notebook, Amarok, Totem, etc gives me sometimes quite choppy sound 
> with GStreamer engine.
> 
> It seems to me, that it happens when music is digitised with lesser 
> frequency than 44,1 natural to my AC97. And i hoped libalsa, having a 
> database of all the known soundcards, should automatically do 
> re-quntisation, etc.
> 
> What might make music playing choppy ?

Our 0.8 alsasink sucks right now and no one has taken the time to figure
out why. A workaround is to set the "device=hw:0" property from within
your gstreamer applications, or via gstreamer-properties if the app uses
gconf. We need to get to the bottom of this soon...

Regards,
-- 
Andy Wingo
http://wingolog.org/