Hi,

I\'m running amaroK 1.3.1. I\'m trying to listen to the following downloaded podcasts. It just skips big time

http://rss.radio-canada.ca/radio/ip.xml

Any clue?

Thanks.

Same problem here.

Using amaroK 1.3.5, using gstreamer 0.8.11, on gentoo.

amaroK skips bizarrely (almost as if the same Mp3 is being played twice by two different threads, which both skip and interrupt each other), this is with BBC podcasts, NASA podcasts. ALL podcasts.

Either streamed live or downloaded first. This is using gstreamer.

If I download these files using amaroK and then play them in totem/noatun. They play fine.

Seems like a bug which _only_ affects podcast downloads.

This is a gstreamer problem. I have tested with arts engine. Everything works fine.

Also while playing music, whenever amaroK carries out another task, ie updating collection, submitting to last.fm, the music skips whilst using the gstreamer engine.

For me podcast does not work with the arts engine, but on xine it works just fine. :huh:

I think it is a very obscure bug regarding an obscure bit/sample rate at which the files have been encoded.

seb wrote:

I think it is a very obscure bug regarding an obscure bit/sample rate at which the files have been encoded.

These files are playing fine under Totem (using gstreamer) and Noatun (using arts). However you may be correct...

From my point of view this appears to be a gstreamer problem which only becomes apparent from within amaroK.

I see that 1.3.6 has been released, will see if this helps.

I too have Gentoo and have this skipping problem with gstreamer. But I don\'t think it\'s a gstreamer problem. If I use gst-launch-0.8 to play back the file it plays fine. Seems to be an odd amaroK problem.

Happening on Fedora 4 with amaroK 1.3.8 & gstreamer. Anyone know if this is fixed in the new beta release--or what the problem is in the first place?

Yeah, this is a known bug in the GStreamer-0.8 engine, and there are no fixes in sight, because this engine is no longer maintained.

We recommend switching to xine-engine, which doesn\'t have such issues.

markey wrote:

Yeah, this is a known bug in the GStreamer-0.8 engine, and there are no fixes in sight, because this engine is no longer maintained.

We recommend switching to xine-engine, which doesn\'t have such issues.

Cool. Thanks. I\'m having trouble finding a yum repository that has amarok-engine-xine. I\'ll keep looking, but do you know of one? I\'ll find a tarball if I have to, but yum is so convenient--especially for updates!