fixing choppy sound in Gnome - installing Xine backend?

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Hi,

in Gnome and XFCE I always have a choppy music playback. The music is never played smoothly. There is always hesitations in the playback, as if the CPU is running on 100% and cannot cope with the system load.

One of the reasons for that is (in my case) Pulseaudio.

Another reason is Gstreamer. When I choose Gstreamer as backend in KDE, I get the same choppy musicplayback as in Gnome or XFCE. With Xine as backend in KDE, everything is fine. So my conclusion is: with Xine, the sound would be fine in Gnome too.

So, I wonder if it is possible to use Xine as backend in Gnome too. Does anyone have experience with running Xine in Gnome and/or XFCE? What do I need to do to set Gnome/XFCE, so that it uses Xine instead of Gstreamer?

Or is there maybe a special setting, I have to apply? In gstreamer-properties I have tried all possible settings, but this didn´t change anything to the quality of sound.

My experience is also: this choppy sound is hardware-independend. It doesn´t matter which hardware I use, the sound is choppy. It is also distro-independend. The sound is choppy in openSUSE (gnome and in KDE with applied Gstreamer backend), in Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Fedora with Gnome, Linux Mint with Gnome.

would be nice if someone had some thoughts, tips and comments on this

cheers
Steffen

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Take a look at step-7 here: SDB:Audio troubleshooting - openSUSE and see if any of the proposed work arounds for choppy sound help you.

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thanks oldcpu, for the link and tip.

Unfortunatly, all this doesn´t help. Still the same. I more and more am convinced that it is not pulseaudios fault. Gstreamer is the one to blame.

I wonder why other people do not recognise this… just play Hells Bells from ACDC and you will have a symphony of chopping and cracking, when listening over Gstreamer. Or is it the song-file, I have? But why is it then playing fine with Xine/Phonon?

If I only could setup Gnome or XFCE with Phonon and Xine as backend…