28 Jun
2009
28 Jun
'09
8:29 a.m.
Hi Danny,
Phonon generaly works better on top of libxine than
gstreamer.... I
am on Kubuntu here and KDE4 Is working quite well - though amarok can
be a bit of a pig on the realtime kernel.
Ah, yeah - forgot to mention that I'd gotten a hint about using
the xine backend from a guy on the Debian-KDE list - it cured a bunch
of problems for me. I think a lot of distros give you gstreamer
backend by default, which is odd given the upstream problems are
seemingly well known.
I'm still not sure what I'm doing with alsa/jack/phonon (if I use
jack, I have to start it early, and reconfig amarok away from
alsa, but then I get pauses in audio playback - about 0.3s every
4s or so - and this is on a 2GB quad-core that's not doing a
heck of a lot!)
The best tool of for doing that sort of thing that I
can think of is
sonic visualizer.
Looks great - and GPL too (I'm always initially dubious if apt-cache
doesn't know about an application ;) Downloading it now - thanks
for the pointer.
Jedd.