Binary package hint: totem
Totem skips a few times near the beginning of the song while playing the visualization. During this time, one of my cpu cores alternates between 100% and < 10% utilization. At first the visualization doesn't show up and all I can see is black. After about 10-30 seconds, it finally shows up and the audio is normally smooth from that point on.
I'm using Ubuntu Gutsy, amd64
libgstreamer0.10-0 is at version: 0.10.14-1ubuntu3
totem-gstreamer is at version: 2.20.0-0ubuntu3
I captured a totem log using 'GST_DEBUG_NO_COLOR=1 GST_DEBUG=*:2 totem' which I'm attaching
Though it consists mostly of lines like this:
0:00:11.213903000 18556 0x2aaab0002bc0 WARN goom gstgoom.c:491:gst_goom_chain:<vis_element> QoS: skip ts: 0:00:01.249523809, earliest: 0:00:05.464807255
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Feb 23 11:40:04 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem
NonfreeKernelModules: video nvidia
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.20.0-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: totem
ProcCwd: /home/dan
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/home/dan/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux dan-desktop 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 02:46:46 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Marking as incomplete until the following is tried:
Increase cache/buffer size in totem. I assume that goom is the only visulization that this behavior happens. I assume that you have sufficient RAM and swap. Does this occur after fresh bootup? Perhaps RAM is full and swap is happening during playback, that would affect performance.
Monitor your free RAM in another terminal:
>free
Observe what is happening in RAM while playing totem with different visualizations.