Bug#472135: please disable souphttpsrc

[Sebastian Dröge]

forwarded 472135 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523854
thanks

Am Samstag, den 22.03.2008, 14:26 +0200 schrieb Modestas Vainius:
> Package: gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
> Version: 0.10.6-5
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hello,
> 
> In 0.10.6-5 you introduced HTTP soup plugin. However, it appears to be
> of the much worse quality than neonhttpsrc (included in the same
> package) because:
> 
> 1) It adds noise and skipping to MP3 streams.
> 2) Its iradio-mode seems to be broken because it does not report title
> of the currently playing song (shoutcast).
> 
> I wouldn't care about souphttpsrc quality if it wasn't prefered to
> neonhttpsrc. E.g. yauap [1] with 0.10.6-4 plays the stream perfectly 
> while yauap with 0.10.6-5 [2] exhibits the problems described above.
> Please consider removing soup plugin or making neonhttpsrc default for
> http/https.
> 
> P.S. I don't know if it's soup plugin fault directly. [2] plays well
> whereas [3] suffers from skipping and noise. However, rm'ing libgstsouphttpsrc.so
> solves playback problems (because the only other alternative, neonhttpsrc,
> is used then).
> 
> 1. yauap -v http://scfire-dll-aa02.stream.aol.com:80/stream/1040
> 2. $ gst-launch -v souphttpsrc location=http://scfire-dll-aa02.stream.aol.com:80/stream/1040 ! mad ! volume volume=0.8 ! alsasink
> 3. $ gst-launch playbin uri=http://scfire-dll-aa02.stream.aol.com:80/stream/1040 volume=0.8

Hi,
thanks for reporting... I can reproduce this here and forwarded the
issue upstream (also found a bug in another plugin while testing that,
thanks :) ):

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523854
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