Problem: After about 2 sets, Pithos stops playback and pops up with message box saying "GStreamer encountered a general stream error.". Gives option to retry, among others. Retry often will start playback again, but not always.
Steps to reproduce:
1. run "pithos --verbose" from cli
2. After each song ends, a gstreamer error occurs, but playback continues. Sometimes cuts song short. error as follows:
"ERROR - pithos:on_message:520 - Gstreamer error: GStreamer encountered a general stream error., gstqueue2.c(2348): gst_queue2_loop (): /GstPlayBin2:player/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin3/GstQueue2:queue23:
streaming task paused, reason error (-5)"
3. After approx 6 songs, pithos pops up with an error box stating "GStreamer encountered a general stream error." with the option to "Cancel" "Retry" or "Preferences". Cli states error as follows:
"WARNING - pithos:get_playlist:435 - Too many gstreamer errors. Not retrying"
3.1 hitting cancel closes the box and starts playing
3.2 hitting retry closes box and starts playing
3.3 preferences opens basic pithos preferences, which has nothing helpful regarding this issue
4. continually repeats steps 2-3, until pithos stops playing altogether, with a msg on song display stating that ""GStreamer encountered a general stream error." Cli states same error as step 2, but this time does not continue playing.
5. Changing stations after step 4 causes msg box from step 3 to appear, but now cancel and retry do nothing.
6. After changing stations again, playback will resume, presumably to repeat steps 2-6 indefinitely.
Expected result: pithos to play indefinitely without gstreamer errors.
Have tried:
1. reinstalling pithos and gstreamer, though not sure if config files have been/need to be removed as well, nor where they are located to remove them.
2. rebooting machine
3. installed pithos on another machine and does not encounter this issue at all. stats of both machines listed below.
4. Was able to repeat issue through step 6 above in less than 1 hour.
Machine Stats:
Desktop - Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit, GNOME and Compiz, AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+, 1.5 gb ram, SB Audigy soundcard, also has onboard audio but not used, **this is the machine having the issue
Laptop - Xubuntu 10.04, Openbox WM, Intel P4, ~256 ram, onboard audio **does not have any gstreamer errors
Right before I submitted this bug, i also realized that I had uninstalled pulseaudio from the laptop, which makes me think this is a pulseaudio issue, since it is installed on the desktop.
I have the same error. pianobar works, but Pithos does not. I'm running KDE on Ubuntu 10.10.