> I can play mp3 audio though Rhythmbox fine, the only > problem is that it momentarily pauses when I do > thinks like moving windows around, alt-tabbing > between windows, switching tabs in Firefox, clicking > the mouse, opening a new folder in nautilus, and > anything that causes CPU spikes. It also does this if > I use Totem. What could be the cause of it, and how > can it be prevented?
My guess is that rhythmbox doesn't buffer (enough) data in the sound card driver. It seems to send tiny amounts of data (1764 bytes; 10 milliseconds of data at 44.1kHz stereo 16-bit) and waits until the data buffer becomes empty (or the amount of data is lower than some tiny threshold). Btw. when I use a command line tool (e.g. ogg123) there is no such issue with audio under load. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
