Phonon VLC and the destruction of music

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Ben Cooksley at 06/06/11 04:36 did gyre and gimble:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 18:40, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Currently I experience severe distortion of my music with a series of
>>> applications (such as Amarok and Juk). I was forced to cease use of
>>> Xine as Amarok changed their internal behaviour - breaking it in the
>>> process. Tracks no longer advance forward properly. This didn't happen
>>> a while ago - can someone please investigate and fix this? I use
>>> Pulseaudio (version 0.9.21) in case it matters.
>>
>> Your subject doesn't match the message. What's going on?
> 
> With the Phonon VLC backend, any application that uses Phonon
> stutters. This renders the music unlistenable. The application doesn't
> matter. When it does output sound though it sounds fine. It is likely
> some form of a buffering issue. There is also a large delay in between
> pressing stop and it actually stopping.
> 
> With the Phonon Xine backend, Amarok no longer advances between tracks
> - forcing me to switch backend / application. For now, i'm using Juk
> with Xine - which works perfectly.


Please try my VLC patches here (the top four commits):

http://colin.guthr.ie/git/vlc/log

Cheers

Col

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