Buffering Forever

rlkeeney

So I don't know what to report to Fedora. If I report the bug in Strawberry, they will surely refer me back to the developer of Strawberry ...

@jonas - Yes, we need to know what to tell them.

jonas

I tested a new installation of Fedora with KDE in VirtualBox, it does not seem to have the issue.
So I did some more testing on Fedora with Gnome too, and it seems like a deadlock issue when the pipeline is destroyed and gst_element_set_state is called, seems like a gstreamer bug to me.

lamusica80

@jonas
Another strange thing: I have Fedora 40 Mate also installed on a AMD Ryzen 3 and tested Strawberry there without any issues. I changed the songs very fast and everything runs like a charm.
My other two Fedora 40 Mate installations running on a Lenovo Thinkcentre M58 Core2Quad and a Lenovo T470 with an i5-6300U processor are causing this issue.

jonas

I built GStreamer 1.24.4 on Fedora 39 Gnome, the issue is then gone.
I also notice if I change strawberry to use the old playbin2 instead playbin3 the issue is also gone.
So there seem to be a bug in GStreamer 1.22 with playbin3, but for some reason it only appears to be an issue when using gnome.
In the meantime Fedora 40 have available GStreamer 1.24.4 in their repositories, so I've tested Fedora 40 with Gnome and the issue is resolved there too.
For Fedora 39 you can try this development build of strawberry: https://builds.strawberrymusicplayer.org/fedora/39/strawberry-1.0.23-2.179.g8a27c6a5.fc39.x86_64.rpm

lamusica80

@jonas
Good news: today gstreamer1-1.24.4-1 was rolled out by the Fedora Team and everything works fine now on my good old Lenovo M58
So you were right: the error was in gstreamer and not in Strawberry!
Thank you for your excellent work!

However, on my T470 I can't play any music with Strawberry and with Parole music player (both abend immediately). Audacious and Amarok have no issues.

But that's no problem, as I use my M58 with the 7.1 surround card for listening music.

collapsinghrung

Just informationally, I have this problem on windows. It's less common than the problem of constant spontaneous pausing, though.

rlkeeney

@jonas I upgraded Fedors from 39 to 40 and it seems to be fixed.