Re: Audio playback broken in 3.4.4-1 on Arch Linux

Jonathan Matthew <[email protected]> Tue, 3 Nov 2020 08:36:30 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.rhythmbox.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
As far as I can tell, the crossfading player in Rhythmbox doesn't work with=
 GStreamer 1.18.
Disable that and playback should work.  Hopefully I'll be able to fix it so=
on.

On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 06:37:47PM +0000, Nicholas H=E9bert via rhythmbox-d=
evel wrote:
> Quick follow up: I just updated to rhythmbox-git 3.4.4+130+g4bf59c711-1 i=
n the AUR and the playback issue persists.
> This has persisted for a while now, but I don't know when it started and =
have no old packages to revert to.
> =

> ________________________________
> From: Nicholas H=E9bert <[email protected]>
> Sent: November 2, 2020 2:07 PM
> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Subject: Audio playback broken in 3.4.4-1 on Arch Linux
> =

> Hello,
> =

> In my system I cannot get simple audio playback to work anymore (central =
core functionality missing).
> The play-head races along with no output. I've attached a gif of the beha=
viour. The song is 20m but the playhead rips through it in seconds.
> =

> My DE is gnome-shell 3.38 running on Linux kernels 5.8 and later.
> =

> Other sounds and media players are working in the same session but Rhythm=
box won't play.
> This occurs with any file I try, and different encodings all have the sam=
e behaviour.
> =

> I disabled plugins and ran with debug output on and attached it.
> I don't see anything amiss to my untrained eye.
> =

> Please let me know if there's any questions.
> Thanks.

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