Re: Phonon and pulseaudio
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:08:25 +0100,
Frédéric Burlet <fred@namurlug.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 21, 2012 10:46:47 PM Florian Kulzer wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 18:25:52 +0100, Frédéric Burlet wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > I recently "dist-upgraded" my debian unstable and since then I
>> don't have > sound anymore in KDE.
>> > I checked what has been upgraded and I noticed that phonon and
>> pulseaudio > have been updated.
>> > Here is an extract of what I see in aptitude's log file.
>> > [UPGRADE] libphonon4 4:4.6.0really4.5.1-1 -> 4:4.6.0.0-1 >
>> [UPGRADE] libpulse-mainloop-glib0 1.1-2 -> 1.1-3 > [UPGRADE]
>> libpulse0 1.1-2 -> 1.1-3 > [UPGRADE] phonon 4:4.6.0really4.5.1-1 ->
>> 4:4.6.0.0-1 > [UPGRADE] phonon-backend-vlc 0.4.1-1 -> 0.5.0-1 >
>> [UPGRADE] pulseaudio 1.1-2 -> 1.1-3 > [UPGRADE]
>> pulseaudio-esound-compat 1.1-2 -> 1.1-3 > [UPGRADE]
>> pulseaudio-module-x11 1.1-2 -> 1.1-3 > [UPGRADE] pulseaudio-utils
>> 1.1-2 -> 1.1-3
>> > Amarok and the notification system do not play any sound.
>> > If I use paplay (from pulseaudio), I do have sound. So, I guess the
>> issue > is a "communication problem" between phonon and pulseaudio.
>> > Before this upgrade, everything worked fine.
>> Which backends are listed when you open the "Backend" tab in System
>> Settings > Multimedia > Phonon? Which output devices are listed on
>> the "Device Preference" tab? Do you hear any sound when you select
>> one of the devices and press the "Test" button on the bottom right
>> hand side?
>> Also post the output of:
>> lspci -knn | grep -iA2 audio cat /proc/asound/cards
> Hi Florian,
> I'm using vlc backend.
I think the vlc backend is currently broken, at least in my sid system.
I was also using it until I noticed that simply going to System Settings
-> Multimedia -> Phonon crashed System Settings. I had to use the
Gstreamer backend by editing ~/.kde/share/config/servicetype_profilerc.
New vlc packages are on their way which will hopefully fix this. AFAIK,
Amarok can only use the Xine backend to play *.mp3, but the
phonon-backend-xine is not currently installable:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
phonon: Conflicts: phonon-backend-xine but 4:4.6.0really4.4.2-1 is to
be installed.
phonon-backend-xine: Depends: libphonon4 (= 4:4.6.0really4.4.2-1) but
4:4.6.0.0-1 is installed.
--
Seb
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