amarok-1.4.3: stuttering for 5-10 sec

[Gleb Litvjak]

On Wednesday 25 October 2006 23:32, Alex Efros wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 08:57:01PM +0200, Mark Kretschmann wrote:
> > No, sorry, can't reproduce and never heard of it. Sounds like this could
> > be hard to trace. Possibly an ALSA problem.
>
> I doesn't received your answer in maillist yet, only CC: copy was
> received... but I'll answer to maillist.
>
> I understand it may be hard to detect this bug, but I don't wish to delete
> amarok because of it and search for another player. Amarok's usability is
> amazing!
>
> So, I need guidelines how to detect/fix/workaround this bug. I've already
> tried a number of solutions, but nothing helps, and I've no more ideas to
> try. Right now I've compiled amarok with Helix engine support and trying to
> use it. If this won't help then we at least will know this isn't issue with
> xine. If this help, then I'd like to fix xine anyway, but this probably
> should be discussed in xine maillist/forum/bugzilla, if any.

It might be (though unlikely) that the cause of this are audio files that are 
somehow corrupted. I've seen a couple of files that are played fine by XMMS, 
but not xine.

One other possibility is that xine-lib itself is broken on your system due to 
some CFLAGS or LDFLAGS. If that's the issue, then recompiling xine-lib with 
more conservative flags might help.

Then again, these are just wild guesses. One thing I'm almost sure about is 
that it's probably an engine or a sound system bug.

Regards,
Gleb Litvjak