Richard: > I didn't get Rhythmbox to work for me (under VirtualBox - complained > about missing Xv extension). Songbird worked, but was very choppy.
Please run gstreamer-properties, go the "Video" tab and change "Plugin" to "Autodetect". That should fix this problem. > But realplayer worked fine, at least as long as I didn't push the system > too hard. What happens if you run gst-launch directly? You can refer ot the manpage for gst-launch to see pipelines for common file types. You should be able to run this command, for example, just replace "musicfile" to the full path of the audio file. gst-launch filesrc location=musicfile ! decodebin ! audioconvert ! sunaudiosink If that works, but other programs are choppy, this could be caused by the animated video eye-candy the player is trying to play when the audio is playing. On a slow CPU, the video may take up too much CPU. Try going into the media player preferences and disabling the "visualizer". Does that help audio performance? Brian
